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Dems Defending the Wealthy Is a Wild Flip · 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 and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, tenth day of March. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me kicking off another week together. We got to
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Speaker 2: look back at something because now just a follow up
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Speaker 2: on the Gene Hackman death and what a strange and
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Speaker 2: sad story that this turned out to be, and it
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Speaker 2: got sadder. It was sad to begin with this Hollywood icon,
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Speaker 2: someone who was beloved and revered as an actor, and
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Speaker 2: finding out that he and his wife both passed away
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Speaker 2: or were found dead at the same time the dog
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Speaker 2: was found. Story just was pretty gut wrenching to begin with.
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Speaker 2: And then now there's extra layers to this story that
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Speaker 2: makes it even sadder, now that the new Mexico Chief
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Speaker 2: Medical Examiner has given some shed some light at least
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Speaker 2: on these final days. So the speculation, of course, you
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Speaker 2: find out that they both passed away were found at
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Speaker 2: the same time, and then there were stories about, you know,
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Speaker 2: some mummification had taken place, which indicated that at least
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Speaker 2: one of them had been dead for a little while.
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Speaker 2: There were some questions about his pacemaker and the last
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Speaker 2: activity on it being on the eighteenth of February. I
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Speaker 2: don't know that we knew as a public that he
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Speaker 2: had Alzheimer's disease. That certainly comes into play in this.
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Speaker 2: And this is where the story and if you have
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Speaker 2: someone in your life, or have had someone in your
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Speaker 2: life life that suffered from advanced dementia or Alzheimer's, it
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Speaker 2: really really hits home. We've had several in our family
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Speaker 2: with at least different forms of dementia, so made it
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Speaker 2: really extra sad. So his wife, Betsy Arakawa died first,
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Speaker 2: and apparently they believe she died on February eleventh hantavirus
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Speaker 2: basically rare virus spread by rodents and rodent droppings. I
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Speaker 2: don't know enough about that to understand how she would
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Speaker 2: have gotten that, and I don't know that they have
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Speaker 2: any idea about that, and that basically the assumption now
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Speaker 2: is that so he died on the eighteenth, that's when
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Speaker 2: the pacemaker last had a signal activity on it. So
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Speaker 2: the question now is that whether they and they believe
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Speaker 2: that he was just functioning in the house kind of
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Speaker 2: unaware because of the Alzheimer's and that ultimately heart complications
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Speaker 2: in Alzheimer's are what finally ended his life. So just
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Speaker 2: the thought that he was in the house, possibly not
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Speaker 2: even realizing that she had passed, possibly not knowing what
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Speaker 2: to do even if he did discover her, some questions
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Speaker 2: about sort of mentally where he was. So yeah, a
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Speaker 2: lot of questions had come out for a while. I
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Speaker 2: said something another show, another podcast about people saying we
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Speaker 2: have a right to know, and I think there's a curiosity.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that there's a right to know. I
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Speaker 2: think when it's an actor as respected and beloved as
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Speaker 2: Gene Hackman, I mean, there are really people that have
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Speaker 2: been saying bad things about Gene Hackman out there. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know that I've ever heard one.
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Speaker 2: I remember there was a comic years ago, and I
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Speaker 2: may have mentioned this on this show. It made a joke.
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Speaker 2: It's about it told an audience that Gene Hackman had
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Speaker 2: just died. And this was years ago, maybe ten years ago,
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Speaker 2: and the audience was like, oh, and he goes not really,
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Speaker 2: but I bet you appreciate Gene Hackman still being alive more,
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Speaker 2: don't you. I mean it it was one of those
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Speaker 2: The joke itself wasn't especially funny, but it did sort
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Speaker 2: of make this point that you know, you should appreciate
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Speaker 2: certain people. I mean, it's true of anyone in your life,
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Speaker 2: appreciate them while they're still with you. But I think
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Speaker 2: it made a point too about how truly beloved Gene
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Speaker 2: Hackman was. So anyway, we get a little bit of
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Speaker 2: closure on that situation with Gene Hackman in his passing,
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Speaker 2: and it's a sad sad ending. It's obviously doubly sad
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Speaker 2: because of multiple people passing. I don't know that they
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Speaker 2: know the specifics on the dog. I didn't really honestly
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Speaker 2: get into the dog because there's a good chance the
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Speaker 2: dog was I think created and possibly not FEDS. That's
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Speaker 2: not something that sits well with I mean, it's all bad,
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Speaker 2: but just that's really bad for me. That hurts dog lovers.
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Speaker 2: Get it all right, Let's move on, because I want
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Speaker 2: to touch on a couple of things. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I often will share some experiences and stories here conversations
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Speaker 2: that I've had with people. And understand when I say this.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes I have conversations with close friends and something in
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Speaker 2: the conversation kind of strikes me in an interesting way,
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Speaker 2: and I want to talk about it, and this is
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Speaker 2: not meant to I don't come on the show to
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Speaker 2: be passive aggressive to them. I don't come on the
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Speaker 2: show to speak ill of anyone. I don't often talk
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Speaker 2: politics outside of the show. I sometimes I know some
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Speaker 2: of you are going, that's not true, but you know,
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Speaker 2: I've had conversations, but I've also had conversations is where
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Speaker 2: I've had to tell people, look, this is not where
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Speaker 2: I do this. I don't want to do this. I
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Speaker 2: remember parents at the soccer field wanting to talk with
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Speaker 2: me sometimes about something in the news, and I just
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Speaker 2: kind of was like, this isn't the right place. There's
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Speaker 2: different opinions here. I want to respect this space, and
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Speaker 2: we're not out here to talk about this. That's my job.
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Speaker 2: This is what I do because I have passion for
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Speaker 2: coaching kids to play soccer, and I have a passion
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Speaker 2: for the game. This is a different place for me
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Speaker 2: to be in. So I just want to be clear
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Speaker 2: on that. And I think in the past I've had
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Speaker 2: conversations with people they aren't necessarily close friends, but people
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Speaker 2: that I knew and ended up talking about them on
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Speaker 2: the radio or here and hurt their feelings, and that
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Speaker 2: wasn't the intention was to hurt their feelings, So I
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Speaker 2: just want to be clear on that, and I'm not
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Speaker 2: This is going to kind of be a combination of
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Speaker 2: a couple of conversations that I've had with people in
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Speaker 2: the last week or so, so I'm not specifically talking
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Speaker 2: about anyone, and this is not meant to be in
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Speaker 2: any way negative to people. This is about as much
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Speaker 2: of a disclaimers I can give on this, because often
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Speaker 2: I talk with people that I completely respect and they
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Speaker 2: bring up something to do with politics and they just
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Speaker 2: get it wrong. And it's just because they really don't
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Speaker 2: understand what's going on and they're getting spoon fed things sometimes,
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Speaker 2: and both sides are guilty of this. I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to say that one side it owns the rights to it,
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Speaker 2: because it's something that has gone on for a long time.
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Speaker 2: This is the nature of the game. But sometimes they
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Speaker 2: just get it wrong. And sometimes I can keep my
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Speaker 2: mouth shut. Sometimes I have a hard time saying that's
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Speaker 2: just not right. Trust me. Sometimes I've seen behind the curtain.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes I get a full view behind the curtain, and
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Speaker 2: I know so much more than what I might even
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Speaker 2: feel comfortable letting on because I don't want it to
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Speaker 2: become a vulnerable situation and it's not going to change things.
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Speaker 2: I've talked a great length about this whole idea of
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Speaker 2: being a keyboard warrior, and people get on social media
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Speaker 2: and fire off a nasty message and they think that's
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Speaker 2: somehow going to make a difference. All it does is
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Speaker 2: make people angry. You might have a handful of people
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Speaker 2: that are going to jump in and make you feel
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Speaker 2: good about yourself by saying, yeah, you're right, but ultimately
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Speaker 2: you make other people upset, and then maybe they say
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Speaker 2: something that makes you upset, and then it's just a
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Speaker 2: whole lot of upset. There was a time when I
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Speaker 2: was one of those people and I stopped it. I
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Speaker 2: just there's there's no reason to go on social media
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Speaker 2: and you know, do anything other than share pictures of year.
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Speaker 2: Here's something funny I saw. Here's a picture of my dog,
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Speaker 2: here's a picture of my kid. Here's what I did
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Speaker 2: on my vacation. That's what people. You know, they like
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Speaker 2: the memes, they like the funny stuff. I don't know
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Speaker 2: that we're really I think if anything we should have
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Speaker 2: learned in the last six months is that, you know,
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Speaker 2: angry posting on social media is not working out the
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Speaker 2: way I think some people think it is. However, you know,
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Speaker 2: for one side, I guess in November it certainly had
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Speaker 2: a big change, and partly because people were more comfortable
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Speaker 2: saying what they wanted to say on there. But it
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Speaker 2: doesn't make it better, doesn't make us all better for it.
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Speaker 2: I've talked about this a little bit since the election,
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Speaker 2: and I just feel like adding one more, one more
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Speaker 2: layer to it because of Doge. And I think it's
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Speaker 2: important that we just kind of kind of touch on
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Speaker 2: this because the flip in where things are politically didn't
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Speaker 2: just happen with the election. It's not like, Okay, so
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Speaker 2: a bunch of people switched over and went and stopped
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Speaker 2: voting Democrat and voted Republican, or voted for the first
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Speaker 2: time and decided to vote Republican, or people who decided, hey,
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Speaker 2: Trump's bad, and then four years of just a terrible economy,
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Speaker 2: and you know, pretending that the previous administration did a
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Speaker 2: lot of things that they just didn't do. They don't
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Speaker 2: get credit for the things like you can't in the
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Speaker 2: course of a campaign use basically the Senate or at
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Speaker 2: times Congress. You can't you can't. Let's just say the House.
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Speaker 2: You can't in governors around the state, judges around the state,
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Speaker 2: around the country, in different states. You can't dictate creating
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Speaker 2: a crisis, taking a crisis and saying, how do we
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Speaker 2: make this as bad as we can make it and
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Speaker 2: really tank the economy and jobs and just full well
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Speaker 2: take advantage of this pandemic and then come out of it.
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Speaker 2: And as soon as the presidency changes hands, then suddenly,
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Speaker 2: now it's time for things to be better, and let's
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Speaker 2: fix them. And look at all these new jobs we created.
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Speaker 2: And the Biden administration didn't create jobs. Jobs just came back.
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Speaker 2: A lot of jobs came back. And if you're going
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Speaker 2: to pretend that they were creating new jobs, and guess what,
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Speaker 2: all of the jobs didn't come back at least not
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Speaker 2: right away. But taking credit for those was at best disingenuous,
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Speaker 2: at worst just a lie. And you can't say, look,
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Speaker 2: this stock market is back, we fix things with The
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Speaker 2: stock market took a hit because of COVID And you
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Speaker 2: can say, well, Trump handled this a certain way. Trump
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Speaker 2: handled it the way most of the country handled it,
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Speaker 2: most of the world handled it, and if he'd handled
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Speaker 2: it any differently, he would have been criticized for that too,
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Speaker 2: just the reality of it. But that aside, it's not
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Speaker 2: just that. That's not the only thing that changed. The
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Speaker 2: very nature of the criticisms of the party changed for
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Speaker 2: Democrats and for Republicans, because remember, there was a time
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Speaker 2: when Democrats were seen as the blue collar party. They
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Speaker 2: were the party of the people, the working man. They
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Speaker 2: looked out for the middle class. They were focused on
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Speaker 2: trying to take care of the sort of the everyman,
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Speaker 2: and Republicans were perceived, at least from a marketing standpoint,
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Speaker 2: they were seen as they're just looking out for the
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Speaker 2: rich people. That's the only people they're looking out for.
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Speaker 2: They're trying to help make the rich richer. That's what
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Speaker 2: they're trying to do. And that little ploy lasted a
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Speaker 2: long time, and Democrats still try to say it, but
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Speaker 2: we've seen this change that's taken place, and now this
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Speaker 2: is just the latest. Because we talked about some of
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Speaker 2: the other things. It was, you know, the left was
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Speaker 2: perceived as, hey, we're going to take care of minorities
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Speaker 2: and we're going to take care of these groups that
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Speaker 2: don't always get representation, and they became really focused on
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Speaker 2: the very, very small groups that don't get much representation,
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Speaker 2: whether it's the trans community saying they should be able
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Speaker 2: to play against women in sports, or whether it's against
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Speaker 2: or supporting immigrants in the country. And let's be honest here,
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Speaker 2: you come in the countries with I think it's her
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Speaker 2: eighty percent chance you come into the US and you're
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Speaker 2: allowed a number of benefits on the taxpayer dime that
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Speaker 2: you're probably whenever you become a citizen and get to vote,
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Speaker 2: here's an eighty percent chance you're going to vote Democrat.
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Speaker 2: I think people see that, that's what the strategy was,
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Speaker 2: and I think that's where a lot of the shift
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Speaker 2: happened in black voters, in Hispanic voters. I think people said,
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Speaker 2: wait a minute, we're here, we're here, Now what about us?
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Speaker 2: And that's where a lot of that shift came from,
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Speaker 2: as you know, when it came to inflation and when
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Speaker 2: it came to just the economy in general. But what
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Speaker 2: I think is fascinating is that we now are seeing
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Speaker 2: these other stripes that Democrats are truly ready to die
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Speaker 2: on the hill in the name of supporting rich people,
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Speaker 2: and they still point at Republicans and say no, no,
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Speaker 2: they're the party of the rich people. They don't want
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Speaker 2: people to pay their fair share of taxes. Elon Musk
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Speaker 2: doesn't pay tax. Elon Musk pays more tax than anyone's
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Speaker 2: ever paid in the history of the country. And he
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Speaker 2: does it every year. He sets the new record each year.
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk doesn't pay income tax because he doesn't take
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Speaker 2: a salary. That's not what he does. He owns these
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Speaker 2: companies and when he needs money of any kind, he
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Speaker 2: takes it from the company. The losses come from, like
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Speaker 2: he takes a loan from the company, and the loss
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Speaker 2: goes on the company. That's the way it works. And
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Speaker 2: they can say, well, but he's not paying income tax.
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Speaker 2: This is what all people do that own companies at
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Speaker 2: this level. He lives in a trailer, like a tiny
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Speaker 2: little trailer of a house. He doesn't spend money. He's
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Speaker 2: not one of those people who I mean, he spends money,
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Speaker 2: but he's not one of those people who lives an
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Speaker 2: extravagant lifestyle. He works, that's what he does all the time.
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Speaker 2: And I read this. A friend was telling me the
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Speaker 2: other day. Yeah, but he should pay the exact same
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Speaker 2: percentage and taxes as everybody else. Well, if he pays
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Speaker 2: twenty percent, and someone who makes, you know, zero point
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Speaker 2: zero one percent the money that he makes pays twenty
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Speaker 2: five percent. He's still paying a lot more through his businesses,
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Speaker 2: a lot more. I don't know how people can't. It's
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Speaker 2: like sitting down at a table and you're trying to
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Speaker 2: split up the bill, and you know, eventually the people
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Speaker 2: that are paying almost nothing come to expect it and
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Speaker 2: they take advantage or take for granted the people that
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Speaker 2: are paying the lion's share of the bill at the table.
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk does pay a lot of taxes, it's just
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Speaker 2: not income tax. And the people that are paying very
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Speaker 2: little or nothing, whatever their percentage is, if they're paying
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Speaker 2: very little, it's still a lot less than what he pays.
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Speaker 2: So take Elon Musk out of the equation. Because people
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Speaker 2: are still mad, why is Elon Musk involved? What's Elon
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Speaker 2: Musk doing? And he's saving people a lot of money,
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Speaker 2: and he's shutting down programs, and he's shutting down funding
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Speaker 2: for NGOs, non government organizations that do things that the
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Speaker 2: government can't do legally using money from the government, like
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Speaker 2: using our tax money to fund them to prop them
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Speaker 2: up even if they don't really have any set focus,
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Speaker 2: or they don't have any history or track record. You've
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Speaker 2: all heard this story about Stacy Abrams and her company
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Speaker 2: getting a bunch of money right as Biden was heading
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Speaker 2: out the door, just sort of putting this money over
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Speaker 2: here because we got to put this somewhere. And prior
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Speaker 2: to this giant billions of dollar donation that went to
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Speaker 2: her company, the company had like one hundred dollars in
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Speaker 2: donations before that. So that's the kind of stuff Elon
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Speaker 2: Musk is shutting down. And that's the kind of stuff
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Speaker 2: now Democrats are supporting. That's the kind of thing that
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Speaker 2: they're supporting, where once upon a time and Republicans are
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Speaker 2: supporting that middle class. And once upon a time they
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Speaker 2: would have been able to point a finger at Republicans
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Speaker 2: and say, look what they're doing for rich people. And
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Speaker 2: there was at least felt like at times, I don't
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Speaker 2: always agree with them when they say it, but they
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Speaker 2: at least owned some essence of that term. And now
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Speaker 2: when they say it, it just doesn't even match what
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Speaker 2: they're doing. It's an interesting thing we talk about. Extreme
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Speaker 2: Republicans used to have this. You know, they were perceived
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Speaker 2: as they were extremely religious, the religion on the left,
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Speaker 2: climate change, climate science, science. A bunch of people in Columbus.
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Speaker 2: People I know, religious people that I know went to
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Speaker 2: go pay money to see Neil deGrasse Tyson speak in Columbus,
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Speaker 2: a very staunch atheist. And that's kind of the religion
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Speaker 2: for a lot of people on the left, not all
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Speaker 2: of them, but a lot of them. Or they might
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Speaker 2: take their political beliefs and kind of wedge it into
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Speaker 2: like the square peg in the round hole and go, well,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to take this into my church. I want
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Speaker 2: trans people to be able to play sports against women
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Speaker 2: and that should be pushed in the church. And you
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Speaker 2: know what are we doing. It's church, not all of them.
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Speaker 2: Some do some of them, some of them very different.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to put everybody in a basket. That's
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Speaker 2: not what I want to do. I'm not one of
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Speaker 2: those people putting people in baskets. That was Hillary Clinton.
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Speaker 2: My point is the extreme, you know the days of
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Speaker 2: the extreme. Hey, folks on the right, the deeply religious,
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Speaker 2: they're talking about the end of the world. They're crazy.
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Speaker 2: The evangelicals on the right. Now it's the evangelicals on
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Speaker 2: the left screaming about climate's gonna kill us all the
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Speaker 2: climate is gonna kill us all we're gonna all be
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Speaker 2: dead in five years or twelve years. And then it
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Speaker 2: doesn't happen. They go, no, no, next time it's gonna happen.
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Speaker 2: It's an interesting time. It's an interesting time that this
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Speaker 2: flip has happened to this degree and that now we're
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Speaker 2: seeing this meltdown of politicians on the left just freaking
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Speaker 2: out because they're rich friends or some cases themselves, rich
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Speaker 2: people who have benefited from some of the things that
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Speaker 2: doge is shutting down, just having absolute meltdowns because they
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Speaker 2: can't continue to support the rich and they're still screaming
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Speaker 2: maintenance that it's time for. It's always good to get
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Speaker 2: maintenance on anything that has parts that move and have electronics.
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Speaker 2: of the maybe cosmetic changes you'd like to make to
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Speaker 2: your garage door. Maybe your curb appeal isn't quite what
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Speaker 2: you want it to be and you need some repair
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Speaker 2: work done to the outside door. Maybe you need a
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Speaker 2: brand new garage door completely. Maybe it's making a noise
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Speaker 2: when your garage door opens and closes. Maybe it's some
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Speaker 2: sort of installation issue that you've got with colder or
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Speaker 2: warmer weather. Sometimes that stuff gets in and it's inconvenient.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you're looking at a situation where you'd like to
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Speaker 2: add a screen door to your garage door system that
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Speaker 2: you can put down and you can use your garage
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Speaker 2: space as a sort of outdoor but indoor. You know,
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Speaker 2: if you like to work on your own cars in there,
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Speaker 2: or maybe you just want a little man cavid, you'd
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Speaker 2: not invite all the insects in. They can do that
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Speaker 2: There's nothing worse than that thought of having your car
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Speaker 2: right after the break. All right, it's this awful day,
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Speaker 2: the Monday after the clocks have changed, and I still
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Speaker 2: hate it. I hate it. I do better with this
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Speaker 2: one than the other one. I still hate it, though,
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Speaker 2: I hate them both. When they change the other one,
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Speaker 2: you know, you get the extra hour, but it's harder
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Speaker 2: for me to adjust. This one was always harder with
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Speaker 2: my kids when they were young, and I guess when
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Speaker 2: I was younger, maybe there was a time where this
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Speaker 2: was harder. But I know I can just go to
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Speaker 2: bed early now like I feel like I can just
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Speaker 2: do that and that kind of helps me reset things.
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Speaker 2: It's almost, you know, like whenever you're traveling and you're
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Speaker 2: just trying to manage, you just have to adjust the
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Speaker 2: sleep part of it. Although there's now talk yet again,
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Speaker 2: and Elon Musk has been asking questions about whether or
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Speaker 2: not daylight saving time should go away. A new Gallup
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Speaker 2: poll finds fifty four percent of Americans say that they
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Speaker 2: would like to stick with standard time year round, not
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Speaker 2: changing the clocks, forty percent saying they're in favor of
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Speaker 2: daylight saving time, six percent saying that they're not sure.
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Speaker 2: Of course, benefits to both with daylight saving time you
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Speaker 2: get more daylight in the evening hours in the summertime,
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Speaker 2: energy savings, and they say more daylight can reduce traffic accidents. However,
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Speaker 2: traffic accidents tend to go up on days like today.
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Speaker 2: Careful if you haven't left the house yet. By the way,
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Speaker 2: you got sleepy people driving. And we get more consistent
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Speaker 2: sleep if the clocks don't change, though, and they say
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Speaker 2: that risk of heart attacks, strokes, other health issues go
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Speaker 2: down if the clocks stay put, at least according to theories,
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Speaker 2: and more morning daylight time helps people wake up and
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Speaker 2: feel alert and help make people more productive. So I
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Speaker 2: got to say I'm on the side of that. I'm
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Speaker 2: just ready for this to be done. I'm ready for this.
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Speaker 1: To be over.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know that we're ever actually going to
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Speaker 2: get rid of it, at least not in my lifetime.
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Speaker 2: Social media is as addictive as drugs. A new study
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Speaker 2: from Durham University in England found that when you're scrolling
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Speaker 2: on social media, your heart rate slows down and you
25:53
Speaker 2: get super focused. It's almost like you're in a trance.
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Speaker 2: But when you stop, especially if you get a notification
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Speaker 2: that you can't check right away, your heart rate spikes,
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Speaker 2: you start sweating, and you start feeling anxious and craving
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Speaker 2: more of it. I've heard people say when they take
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Speaker 2: a break, and some people are doing that now they've
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Speaker 2: given it up for lint or whatever, and they say
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Speaker 2: that they get more focused, their memory gets better, a
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Speaker 2: number of things they're able to just even just general conversation.
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Speaker 2: They're better conversationalists, all those sorts of things. So I
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Speaker 2: can believe all of this, all of this certainly fits
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Speaker 2: with that with experiences or you know, like anything else, moderation.
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Speaker 2: Moderation is the solution to most of our problems, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I would say so, it's food, it's certainly
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Speaker 2: social media. I think moderation makes a big difference alcohol.
26:50
Speaker 2: If you think AI can't get stressed, well I think again.
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Speaker 2: A new study shows AI apps like chat GPT actually
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Speaker 2: display anxiety. Computers haven't developed emotions, but researchers say that
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Speaker 2: large language models actually give different output when they receive
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Speaker 2: traumatic information. Even crazier relaxation prompts can calm them down.
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Speaker 2: It's important because AI is already being used to aid
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Speaker 2: in mental health therapy. Because it reacts erradically, it can
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Speaker 2: be less useful in those settings in a clinical setting,
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Speaker 2: So moving forward, programmers will have to account for these
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Speaker 2: reactions and make sure that AI keeps it cool. I've
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Speaker 2: told you the other day. I guess there's now a
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Speaker 2: at least one, there's probably a few AI therapists, So
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Speaker 2: that fits in with this as well. Right in with this.
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Speaker 2: So if you're trying to speak with an AI mental
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Speaker 2: health expert and then the AI gets stressed out, they're
27:56
Speaker 2: not going to be able to help you as much.
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Speaker 2: So there you go, all right, that'll do it for
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