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Pride Month Ends and American Pride Month Begins? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Friday morning, thirtieth day
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of June. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. I hope you're feeling
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safe today. It's the final day of Pride Month, whereas it it's been
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Pride seven weeks. I think if we go back to when Pride Month actually
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started, it was early maybe a weekend to May. Some places may have
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started it sooner than that, but you know, June designated the month to
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celebrate everything LGBTQ. Plus there's there's two what were the two letters from yesterday
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that I I ah, so we had the whole story about I guess.
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I don't know if the bud light thing counts. I don't know if that
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was part of Pride Month. I'm not really sure. I think that was
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to celebrate the Dylan mulvaney who was celebrating one year of living as a twelve
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or fourteen year old girl or whatever it was himself I guess, in his
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twenties, before the transition, before deciding to be a twelve or fourteen year
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old girl. Whatever. I don't know if that count that count is kicking
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off Pride Month. It kind of did, though, did it. I
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mean, we won't count that one for the purposes of this because I think
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Target is the one that actually kicked off Pride Month. Targets the one who
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said we're gonna put the swimsuits with the extra tuck room in the crotch like
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front and center in the store back in May. That wasn't something that happened
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in June. That was to get ready I guess for Pride Month. But
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that's okay because we do that for everything. I think we probably have Halloween
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stuff in stores now. I don't know that's the next I mean, we've
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already kind of loan through Independence Day. I know there's still some charcoal and
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stuff out on display. There's some red, white and blue T shirts.
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There's a few of that stuff still out there, but there you know,
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they're itching to get it out of the way because they got to get really
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zero laser focused on the next thing, which I guess is Halloween. Right,
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they're not really big Labor Day decorations that you put out, and they're
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focused on that they want to get ready for. They'll be in soon.
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If they're not in by this weekend. If they're not in maybe by you
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know, the fourth, by Tuesday, and then they'll be in there by
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the fifth. That's what'll They'll move out all the red, white and blue
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and they'll get ready for Halloween. That's what they'll do. It'll be orange
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and black and and a spirit. Halloween will start zeroing in on a location.
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If it doesn't already have one, it won't be where Crunch Fitness is.
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We know that that get taken over the old Best Buy location, so
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we know that there's people sweating there, you know, getting getting their sweat
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on, getting their work out on, so you can't blame them for kind
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of leading into it. That's what we do with everything. And the Halloween
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stuff will ultimately like they'll have Christmas stuff in before Halloween's even done. And
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that's what we do. Everybody says, ah, they've skipped Thanksgiving. You
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know you put that that cornucopia on the table, right if you put that
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horn on the table with you know, like pumpkins and corn spilling out a
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it's sweet potatoes. That's what you do to decorate for Thanksgiving. And people
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say, oh, they're not playing the Thanksgiving music on the radio. There's
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just as the one song, there's the Adam Sandler song. I mean,
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there's a couple other songs that say thanks. My point is you can't blame
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them for getting an early start. But it is interesting that's something like Pride
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Month, which is kind of supposed to be, you know, thirty days,
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thirty days of celebrating everything that is rainbow and May if I remember correctly,
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and it's hard to keep up with all these days. But May was
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the Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage month, right, I get the full name
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of it. I think that's it. So that's what so to me if
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it's about the month, and I'm not talking about the specific holiday, because
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let's let's be honest for a minute here, and I'm sort of joking about
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defending the lead up to it, because in reality, we have holidays like
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Valentine's Day. Okay, the Christmas stuff clears out, the Valentine's Day stuff
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gets in place. We have a little window with fireworks and things for Independence
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Day, but we really start to focus on merchandise for Valentine's Day. Black
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History Month is in February, so there's a difference between the holiday that you're
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shopping for and a month of remembrance or a month of observation or whatever it
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is, so you don't necessarily have you know, there's not merchandise specifically for
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Hey, we're gonna all do Martin Luther King Junior Day. We're not going
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to all have specific merchandise for Arbor Day. I guess maybe they do.
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I don't know. There's not really going to be merchandise. Yeah, there
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would be some, I guess from MLKA Day, but there's not really Black
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History Month merchandise that takes over in stores and stuff exists, I'm sure,
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but it doesn't take over the stores. Pride Month is supposed to be like
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Black History Month or Asian and Pacific Island or Heritage Month, and you know,
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bread cancer Awareness months. We have these months, and there's a lot,
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there's so many more, but it's not really a merchandise grab unless it
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really is about pandering. And if it's about pandering and trying to lure in
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customers, then I suppose there would be merchandise for it. But that's kind
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of what happened, isn't it. They decided in May that the other significant
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month just be pushed aside because we got to start getting ready to pander to
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the LGBTQ plus community. We got to have this stuff in stores and show
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our support for them and make sure that they're the next customer base that we're
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recording. But that's their business. It's their business to run their business if
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that's what they want to do. I'm just pointing out that there were a
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number of bits, like we went to eat on a day in May at
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a restaurant celebrating my wife's birthday, and while we were there, we noticed
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that the staff was all wearing their Rainbow Pride month gear in May. Now
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I'll point out two, I don't remember that restaurant wearing Asian Pacific Island or
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a Heritage month t shirts. I didn't see any of that. I didn't
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see any of that back in April leading into May, I didn't see that.
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So and to be honest, this particular restaurant, it was not I
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mean, we were there because it was you know, the boys wanted to
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celebrate mom's birthday at the place we went. It wasn't really her idea to
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go to this particular restaurant anyway. But the point is she enjoys what she
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gets there. But that wasn't really about her. The boys celebrating and me
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so and I didn't say the name of the restaurant because it's not important.
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They sell hamburgers. Yeah. So, here we are closing out Pride Month
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that's been going on for like seven weeks, and we're kicking off the month
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of July, and we have one representative out of Texas, Wesley Hunt,
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and he says that July should be American Pride Month. We've come out of
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or we're coming out of, I should say Pride month, and that there
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should be an American Pride Month, an opportunity to celebrate and remember things accomplished
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by all Americans. He basically said, the purpose of American Pride Month is
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to celebrate, memorialize, and increase awareness of the monumental achievements of the United
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States of America and the countless number of patriots throughout her history. As a
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pronoun in there, she her, I guess, I don't know he didn't
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say that, but I just noticed he said her history, which have made
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this nation the last best hope of Earth. It also went on to say
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the purpose of America pribly a month is to bring American exceptionalism back into the
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spotlight and to teach our children what it means to be an American. I
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think that is important. I do think all of that is important. And
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I do think that if we're going to have every other month claimed, why
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not get the month of July inasmuch as it's got a holiday in it that's
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there to celebrate our independence, to celebrate our freedoms. Many of them have
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felt like they've been in jeopardy a lot lately. I do know that there's
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a little hyperbole with some of that. I mean, we're not in danger
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of losing some of our freedoms, but some of them certainly feel like they're
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teetering. Some of them feel like they're just taking so many punches that maybe
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the punching bag is just going to come off the chain. Some of them
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feel that way, don't they. I think that's one of the reasons that
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so many people have just kind of they threw up their hands, or they
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get angry. There's two respons is. You can either get really angry and
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fight back, or you just kind of throw up your hands and you go,
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what are we doing here? Where's the common sense? So representative Hunt
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saying that American Pride Month should be observed, and he also made sure to
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stress that as a quote, my family and I serve this nation in combat.
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American exceptionalism means something to me, and I want it to mean something
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again to future generations of Americans. American history is worth teaching, it's worth
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celebrating, it's worth remembering. I'm urging my colleagues on both sides to enthusiastically
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support this resolution. And this was all in his press release, and he
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referenced on Twitter former President Reagan during his nineteen eighty nine farewell address when he
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talked about how that history has to be taught based not on what's in fashion,
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but what's important. And Hagan said, if we forget what we did,
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then we won't know who we are, and that quote was in with
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his announcement that he posted on social media. So how about it. It's
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tomorrow. Can we get it going that fast? Can we celebrate? Can
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we have American Pride Month? Do we run the risk of there being people
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wanting to protest and oppose having American Probably that would be embarrassing, wouldn't it.
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That doesn't seem like a good idea, But I think there would be
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people that would want to go against the idea of American exceptionalism. I think
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we've had presidents kind of recent ones that were against the idea of American exceptionalism.
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We had a president and went around the world and apologize to people for
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some of the things that we've done. That was a strange moment in time,
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wasn't it. Hey On the subject of things that feel like common sense
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should prevail. We did get some decisions from the Supreme Court this week.
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Pretty big one yesterday as the Supreme Court as come to a decision on these
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cases regarding affirmative action, at least as it pertains to the university system.
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And this was a six to three decision. I don't think anybody was shocked
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on the ruling as far as the breakdown on it. We do have six
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conservative five and a half conservative justices. I mean there's six, but we
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got one who you know, so a six three ruling, and then the
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three liberal justices of course did what they always are typically do once say they
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always do, and not all of them vote exactly because I remember we had
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the ruling also here in this session about North Carolina and those redistricting rules,
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and we had three conservative justices two and a half that went with the three
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liberal justices and uh and went with them, so um Kavanaugh, Barrett,
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and the other one the Chief Justice Roberts. So it's not always straight down
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the line. It feels like it sometimes. In this case it was down
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the line though, And these were cases that involved affirmative action in university So
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basically saying that universities don't have the ability to rule out candidates. They have
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to be fair. Race can't be part of the decision ultimately when it comes
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to admissions. And this goes to right on the heels, We're right on
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the heels. We're a month now beyond Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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But it related to one of the two cases that was brought before them,
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related to Harvard as the complaint arguing that the school's practice has penalized Asian American
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students and that they didn't employ race neutral practices. See, we have this
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perception, and we've had this perception for a long time now, that affirmative
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action is mainly about helping non white people in these situations, and in reality,
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when we keep dividing ourselves into groups by race, and we keep pushing
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race based on various well we have to put we have to push the We
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had too many Asian students over here, and we got to push this group
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and push that group and move them around. It's not all just about black
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and white. It's not all about white and everybody else. And this is
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a great example of why that is the case. So there were a couple
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There was also out of University of North Carolina another case that was part of
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it. But anyway, the other part of this was the two Supreme Court
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justices who read conflicting opinions from the bench yesterday. And this was a case
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where Clarence Thomas read and then Justice Sotomayor also read. And she was representing
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I guess the three she and the two other liberal justices in Jackson and Kagan.
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So and part of her argument, she says the Court long ago concluded
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that this guarantee can be enforced through race conscious means in a society that has
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not has never been colorblind. She wanted to stress that we're not colorblind.
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We've never been colorblind, and we continue to remind ourselves about color. We
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talk about this whole concept of being colorblind. Yet every chance we get we
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pick at the scab. We just had the story. I was just talking
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to a friend yesterday about this. We just had the story earlier this week
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about Reuters digging into the past of political leaders so that they can say,
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look at what political leaders we have whose families once owned slaves. Those people
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owe everyone an apology and talk about what they're going to do to help make
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sure that it's already it's already been abolished. We've moved on from it a
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long time ago. And the people involved now whose names are being attached to
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their families in the past or being asked to apologize for what they did,
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I don't. I don't, there's no I mean, it's one of those
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things where you know, maybe you got a family member that you're like,
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maybe you get like that wacky uncle, and you you're with the wacky uncle,
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and you're like, hey, wouldn't it be great if you went on
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top of that watertime hour and peted off the side and spray painted your name
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on it? And then they got arrested and then people can't even weren't you
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there with him? And I'm sorry, I kind of I egged that one
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on. That's my fault. I shouldn't have done that. That's a case
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where you can apologize for your family. You know, you provoked it,
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you made it happen. You can't ask someone, well, yeah, I
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guess you can, but it's is it reasonable to ask someone to apologize for
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this horrible atrocity? And I'm not comparing slavery to peeing off a tower.
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I'm just pointing out the fact that there's some circumstances named a scenario where maybe
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you could provoke somebody. I doubt there were people back even back then,
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I'm against having slaves. Oh, come on, just get one. You
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should just get one. And if that's what happened, then yes, that
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person should apologize. You can't ask five six generations later, Hey, what
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are you gonna do about what your family did back then? I mean,
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we don't even know the specific ties of some of this family. Their eighth
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cousin twice removed. I don't know what. How are we connecting all of
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this? What is Barack Obama's family own slaves? I mean, that's that
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was part of what this study showed us. The only current living president's family
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who did not own slaves Donald Trump. So what I mean it was like
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this got you intent and it really was just about picking at a scab.
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That's all it's really about, And it's about reminding ourselves. Race. Race,
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race, race, race, race effects everything. Race race. That's
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what makes people feel unsafe. That's what makes people feel unsafe. I can't
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speak to the specific instances, but that's the kind of thing that makes people
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really paranoid. When someone comes on their property starts ringing their doorbell and you
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think, who is this person, why are they year? It doesn't justify
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shooting them, but it's the kind of thing that makes people paranoid. Who's
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at my door? Why is this guy at my house? Why is this
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these girls pulling into my property? Why is all of this happening? And
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you get scared and you freak out and you don't want to get harmed.
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They're not doing the right thing. You can't just start blasting someone. But
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this is all contributing to that fear. It's contributing to that paranoia all the
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time. Are there bad cops, certainly or most cops bad? Certainly?
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Not. But if we keep telling ourselves, oh those cops they're bad,
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they're not good. You can't even watch TV. Now I've got two TV
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shows that I've watched pretty regularly, and you get into the shows and then
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all of a sudden, there's little jabs at the police force. What what
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is the message here? What are we doing? We're making this worse,
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We're picking it. We're not just picking at the scab, we're complete removing
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it. And we're jabbing a butter knife in there. Let's make it bleed
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more, that's what we're doing. So there you go the Supreme Court Justice
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Sotomayor telling us that this is uh, we're not colorblind. We've never been
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colorblind, never been. She didn't say we never will be, but it's
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kinda we start feeling that that's what the assumption is. Will we ever be
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colorblind until we stop talking about race all the time? I guess that's the
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question, because that at one time was the goal. That was part of
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the goal in the whole Obama campaign, wasn't it. Let's get to this
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point where we can we'll cross this bridge. This is a glass ceiling and
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we never thought would be broken. Let's do it. Let's all get on
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board, let's vote this guy and as president. Show everybody that's a that's
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a song wasn't It wasn't that uh Rob Thomas for Matchbox when he lets she
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have for Wee Curl, I'll stop singing. That was the song though.
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That was the whole point. That was to show everybody. I don't sing
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a lot on this show. That's because we're we're we're getting ready to kick
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off a very special month. We're gonna kick off American Pride Month tomorrow.
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That's why I sang. That's the only reason I don't normally sing on here.
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I don't. I'm worried that my singing might make you feel unsafe though,
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all right, anyway, so, uh so some common sense. We
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had a little bit of common sense come through there on that ruling. So
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that's that's pretty exciting. That feels pretty good. And it said driving some
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people crazy. It's driving people nuts. President Biden says, the courts not
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normal after this decision. This is gonna be one of those things it's gonna
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try to push. Oh, we gotta start packing the courts. We gotta
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start getting more justices in there that reflect our ofs And this side says,
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no, No, We're gonna put more reflect our views. And it's gonna
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go back and forth Republicans feeling good about it. I think the average citizen
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probably feels good about it. Maybe if you're of a certain group that wasn't
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able to get into Harvard, you probably feel pretty good about it if it
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was related to you being discriminated on because of race, and if you're if
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it didn't really I mean, I don't know. I don't know how many
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people overall this affected other than these particular Asian students who wanted to file this
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case in the first place. But this will be fodder for the election season
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Morning Show right after the break. So what if you went to bed and
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then you woke up and the next morning you were a year younger. Well,
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that was the case for people in South Korea, millions of people in
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South Korea, because there was a change in a law formally that took a
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year off many people's age. And the reason that's the case is because they
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used to determine your age based on the year. Basically, you were year
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old right out of the gate. This kind of ties in with that hole
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when people say there was no year zero on the calendar, and I understand
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what they're saying, because when you go back to you know, when you're
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switching from BC or BC whatever they call it now to a D, they
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say, well, there was no year zero, but there was a first
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year, right, first year, second year? Well, guess what,
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your first year of your life? You were zero. Anyway, I know
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if people argue and they want to say, no, no, that's not
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the way it works, but that's that's it was the first year. The
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first year is the first minute, right, the first year of your life,
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none? It was one, that's what it was. Well, this is
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correcting how wrong that was in South Korea because they were basically saying, hey,
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you're born, you're one. Not any more. They got rid of
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the law. So now everybody lost a year of their life. They didn't.
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They just gained it because it was their first year, right, their
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first year, they were zero for three hundred sixty five days or you know,
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the leap year thing and then they were one. So that's what they
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finally got straight there in South Korea. So that's good. Good for them.
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They get to now be the correct age, and maybe they can also
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look back at year zero, the first year when it comes to starting a
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d all right, So there's a barista at Starbucks who has come up with
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it's a good that's a good hack. That's a good life hack.
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Good for her. I mean, if she's there for like ten years and
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she's wearing it, I think people are gonna know something's up, but I
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think it's also clever the people who don't know what's up, all right.
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So there's an ongoing discussion, and we're getting closer to Independence Day when a
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lot of people do grilling. They want to get out on the grill and
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they want to have hot dogs and burgers and things, and it's raised the
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question about whether or not catch up belongs in the refrigerator or not. This
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discussion has come up on various social media here lately, with people saying if
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it's on the shelves in the stores, then you shouldn't put it in the
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refrigerator when you get it home. And there's some things that when you open
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them you're supposed to refrigerate it. I think could go on a shelf,
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But I guess the folks at Hines have jumped into the conversation after someone was
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asking this question and said, well, your soft drinks, where do you
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keep those once you get them home? Do you make those cold? I'm
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a cold catch up guy. I'll be honest, I'll do it either way,
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but if I have a preference, I'll also keep mustard in the fridge.
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I don't have a problem with that either. I like the cold mustard.
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It's fun, all right. Finally, you know, Netflix has been
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cracking down. They did a smart move. They started their crack down in
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the States on the day that HBO Max became Max. Because that app I
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think has sorted itself out now, but at first it was jacked up.
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It was majorly messed up. And that was really smart timing from the folks
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in Netflix. I don't want to give them credit for much, but I
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will give them credit for that to start cracking down on the shared accounts on
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that day. But there's more companies that are now starting to say, hey,
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you're beating the system here by doing this by sharing the account. And
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there have been more and more cases now of cost Co using having employees worrying
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about people using their someone else's card when they go in to make purchases at
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at the stores. So now Costco is saying that people using self checkout should
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scan their membership cards that do have photos on them, and that way the
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employees are able to visibly see whether or because if you're you know, working
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as the cashier and it's not self checkout, you can look at their card
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and say, hey, this isn't you. As if it matters, as
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if it should matter. I don't know that there's so much mooching going on
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that it's costing them incredible amounts of money. But apparently they at least feel
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that's the case. A rep for Costco said, we don't feel it's right
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that non members receive the same benefits and pricing as our members. So you
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know, that's that's what they're gonna do. It seems like a lot of
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extra effort. You gotta scan it, I guess so somebody can see it.
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Here's an idea, just have people working in there. Just have employees
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in their working and then you don't have to worry about scanning the cards.
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And maybe one of the reasons that you know people are just doing it because
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they've been able to do it because you haven't had people working there. That
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seems to be part of it too. All right, that'll do it for
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