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Drones and DOGE · 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, sixteenth day of December. I'm west Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: We are creeping up on Christmas fast, aren't we? Or
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Speaker 2: whatever holiday you celebrate? Do you see? The first lady
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Speaker 2: told some kids happy Holidays, and one of them said
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Speaker 2: happy Christmas back to her. A lot of people celebrating
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Speaker 2: that as a big win of some kind. I get it,
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Speaker 2: I get it, I understand, But is it really that big?
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Speaker 2: Does a kid really correct her or just yelled out
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Speaker 2: happy Christmas? I mean some people saying, ah, that kid's
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Speaker 2: parents really taught them well to do that, eh? I mean,
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Speaker 2: is that the hill we're dying on? On the happy
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Speaker 2: holidays thing? I mean, when you get corrected if you
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Speaker 2: say Merry Christmas or happy Holidays, Yeah, that's that's when
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Speaker 2: it's it's it's me doing the You live your life.
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Speaker 2: You be you If you'd rather say happy Holidays than
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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, I don't care. It's when you care what
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Speaker 2: I say that I have a problem when I have
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Speaker 2: to participate in whatever this is that you're doing. Maybe
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Speaker 2: the person saying Happy Holidays is Jewish or knows more
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Speaker 2: Jewish people, and they're just trying to include everybody of
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Speaker 2: their bubble of friends. I don't know, it's just not
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Speaker 2: the hill to die on. But anyway, it was funny
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Speaker 2: that the kid yelled out at the first lady, because
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Speaker 2: we've seen all the videos of I think it was
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Speaker 2: actually the vice president saying we're not gonna say, uh,
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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, We're gonna say happy Holidays, and then later
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Speaker 2: she was she in the first I think it was
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Speaker 2: sort of the first lady then saying, you know, merry Christmas. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: I want to again extend my thanks to Collonne State
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Speaker 2: University for having me as part of their graduation ceremonies
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Speaker 2: over the weekend. I told you on Friday, I had
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Speaker 2: done the hooding ceremonies on Thursday. And it's always great
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Speaker 2: people get to that level where they've gone on to
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Speaker 2: those graduate degrees. I know the amount of work that
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Speaker 2: goes into it, not from personal experience, just from watching
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Speaker 2: my wife do it. And when I say, you know,
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Speaker 2: you have some students that they'll graduate and the immediately
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Speaker 2: go into whatever that next level is. And then you
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Speaker 2: got some folks that do it a little bit later
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Speaker 2: in life. I'm not calling my wife old by any means.
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Speaker 2: She's younger than I am, and I'm not old, not
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Speaker 2: at all. I'm not even remotely old. But when you're
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Speaker 2: doing it while you're working a job on top of it,
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Speaker 2: and you have a family, I know those challenges that
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Speaker 2: go into it. I know the challenges of trying to
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Speaker 2: live your life while also putting in the amount of
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Speaker 2: work it takes to get that degree, and get that
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Speaker 2: degree at a high level. So kudos to all of
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Speaker 2: those graduates. And then, of course Friday was the day
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Speaker 2: for the graduation ceremonies, and my recap on graduation was this.
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Speaker 2: There were a couple of names I know I missed
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Speaker 2: on Thursday. I tell you, I try to hit in
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Speaker 2: the high nineties. That's my goal. If I can get
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Speaker 2: in the ninety percent, I think it's a win. I've
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Speaker 2: had a few ceremonies where I feel like I got
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Speaker 2: every name right. One of these ceremonies this year, I
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Speaker 2: feel like I got every name right. The others, you know,
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Speaker 2: a couple of misses here, a couple of misses there.
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Speaker 2: The last ceremony I had maybe four in there, and
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Speaker 2: I tried to correct them on the fly. It was
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Speaker 2: the end of the day. I was trying to correct
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Speaker 2: them on the go, which of course just then draws
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Speaker 2: attention to the fact that I had missed it. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: but I mean, if I missed, you know, and four ceremonies,
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Speaker 2: eight names, that's pretty good. I mean that's a that's
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Speaker 2: a really good. That's a real I'm hitting high, high percentages.
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Speaker 2: I'll take that anyway. I have a good time doing it.
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Speaker 2: It is stressful. It is a high risk, high reward gig.
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Speaker 2: That's how I feel about it. I get up there,
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Speaker 2: I try to get the names right. I try to
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Speaker 2: make sure every parent, every sibling, every aunt and uncle
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Speaker 2: and grandparents whoever, I want them to hear. And even
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Speaker 2: the student, I want them to hear their name said correctly.
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Speaker 2: And if you walked across the stage and I messed
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Speaker 2: up your name, I apologize. Did my best. That's all
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Speaker 2: I can tell you. And and I feel badly because
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Speaker 2: many of them said, you know, nobody ever gets the
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Speaker 2: name right. I have a difficult name. And I said, well,
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Speaker 2: let me let me give it a shot, let me
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Speaker 2: let me do my best. I had to speak some
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Speaker 2: Spanish for one of the students during the hooting ceremony
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Speaker 2: that had remarks in Spanish. I got told by that
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Speaker 2: student the next day on Friday, Man, you nailed that.
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Speaker 2: That feels good. High risk, high reward, baby, That's what
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Speaker 2: I gotta do, all right. But again, thanks thanks to
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Speaker 2: Columbus State for letting me be part of it. Looking
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Speaker 2: forward to spring ceremonies already, not yet. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: want to enjoy Christmas. I had to get through the Nutcracker,
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Speaker 2: and I get through it, you know, rehearsals. It's I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's a joy to do it. I don't want to
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Speaker 2: get through. It doesn't sound right, but I'm saying I
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Speaker 2: had to get through on my calendar the events that
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Speaker 2: led up to the Nutcracker. Then I had to get
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Speaker 2: through graduation ceremonies. Now that I'm on this side of it,
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Speaker 2: we're at the sixteenth and Christmas is, you know, like
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Speaker 2: eight days and change away at this point, right, we
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Speaker 2: got a countdown. A snowman that just stares at me,
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Speaker 2: and it's just smiling and grinning and saying, hey, you're
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Speaker 2: not done shopping yet. We're getting there. We're close. We
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Speaker 2: got a few things we've ordered there on the way,
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Speaker 2: they're supposed to be here maybe today tomorrow. Once that's here,
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Speaker 2: we can do the proper inventory. I hope you're having
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Speaker 2: a good, successful run and getting prepared as we're getting
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Speaker 2: to the final countdown and then schools will start dropping
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Speaker 2: out this week. I know Muscogee County is out on Friday.
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Speaker 2: I don't know when. Some of the others I think
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Speaker 2: are getting out before that, but we're in that phase,
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Speaker 2: final stretch for kids to get all their stuff turned
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Speaker 2: in and the ones on semester systems are wrapping things
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Speaker 2: up if they're at the university level. All right. So
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Speaker 2: I haven't talked about the drones yet, and I know
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Speaker 2: that the drones have been a hot topic for a
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Speaker 2: little while. My mom actually they asked me the other day.
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Speaker 2: We were on the phone talking and she said, we
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Speaker 2: haven't talked about this yet, but I want to get
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Speaker 2: your thoughts on the drone because you knew I hadn't
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Speaker 2: really addressed it on the show, and you know, I'm
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Speaker 2: with everybody else. You get concerned, but then you think of, like,
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Speaker 2: you know, what could it be? What might the drones be?
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Speaker 2: I think we're starting to as it's playing out, We're
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Speaker 2: starting to get an idea that maybe this is some
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Speaker 2: sort of a US government thing where they're doing some
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Speaker 2: sort of testing. And if that's the case, if it's
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Speaker 2: some sort of a secret testing thing that they're doing
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Speaker 2: to test accessibility in areas, to test you know, functionality
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Speaker 2: of those things in areas, or what they're able to
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Speaker 2: do with them, or you know what, navigating in certain
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Speaker 2: areas under certain circumstances avoiding detection, you know, whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: There's two sides to that. There's the side of it
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Speaker 2: that says, yikes, our government could be doing that. But
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Speaker 2: there's also the side of it that says, if they're
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Speaker 2: doing it for some worthwhile cause you know, defense, it's
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Speaker 2: our defense department that's doing it, you know, they don't
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Speaker 2: necessarily have to tell us all the details about that.
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Speaker 2: And I'm comfortable with that to a degree. You know,
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Speaker 2: you've heard me say before, I don't necessarily want, you know,
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Speaker 2: all the secret things to be revealed. Some of the
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Speaker 2: secret things need to be secret, and I get that
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Speaker 2: to a degree. To a degree, I'm not a big
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Speaker 2: advocate for an invasion of privacy. I'm not a big
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Speaker 2: advocate for crossing certain lines, but if it's something that
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Speaker 2: is justified, and I'm comfortable that come January twentieth, we
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Speaker 2: may have a better idea or indication of what's been
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Speaker 2: going on. And there's been a few things that have
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Speaker 2: come out from the White House where they don't want
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Speaker 2: to quite answer some questions. They're being very a Kirby
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Speaker 2: is one of the he's not giving direct answers, he's
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Speaker 2: giving some kind of vague answers. So we'll see. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. The short answer is, I don't know. Could
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Speaker 2: it be, you know, somebody they are talking about mother
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Speaker 2: ships from like other countries that have them offshore. That's scary.
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Speaker 2: I'd like to know if that's what it is. We
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Speaker 2: have a right to know if that's what it is,
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Speaker 2: if it's the government testing something to do with drones
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Speaker 2: above us soil and for the sake of protecting us.
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Speaker 2: This kind of goes back to, you know, when they're
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Speaker 2: searching for criminals that have committed some kind of heinous
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Speaker 2: crime like murdering a guy in the street in cold blood,
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Speaker 2: and then the news reports and police departments basically lay out, yeah,
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Speaker 2: here's how you can get away with not so much.
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Speaker 2: The police departments they just tell what's happened, and then
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Speaker 2: the pundits on you know, TV stations and news outlets,
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Speaker 2: you say, well, that's the right way to do it.
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Speaker 2: If you're trying to get away with it, if you
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Speaker 2: want to hide, this is what you do. By the way,
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Speaker 2: the people that are giving money to the guy who
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Speaker 2: shot Brian Thompson, CEO of United health Care, if you're
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Speaker 2: donating money because you think he's a hero, you just
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Speaker 2: have too much money. That's the problem. You got too
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Speaker 2: much money. You're complaining about health Care stealing your money
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Speaker 2: and not paying off policies. You know, maybe you should
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Speaker 2: hang on to that money that you're sending in to
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Speaker 2: help his defense fund. You bu you live your life.
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Speaker 2: You say happy Holidays, you donate it to, you donate
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Speaker 2: it to. I like the people who correct you if
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Speaker 2: you say happy Christmas. How about that one. I've said
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Speaker 2: Happy Christmas before, just because it's different. I just like
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Speaker 2: the way it sounds happy Christmas, and it sounds like
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Speaker 2: you're gonna say happy Holidays. But you say happy Christmas
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Speaker 2: and people go, it's merry Christmas. You're supposed to say
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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas. What's that about? Is that about exactly. I
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Speaker 2: want to talk about dough because we're not going to
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Speaker 2: settle the issue with the drones. That's not going to
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Speaker 2: get settled right now. Maybe we'll find out, you know,
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Speaker 2: in late January, mid to late January, we may get
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Speaker 2: a better idea of what's going on with the drones
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Speaker 2: if we need to, and again it's possible that we
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Speaker 2: don't need to. I am. I've been kind of perusing
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Speaker 2: the Department of Government Efficiency X page some of the
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Speaker 2: conversations created on there. That's what you do. You start
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Speaker 2: a conversation. I learned that from my buddy Colin, who
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Speaker 2: is a listener and a patron supporter. Thank you, Colin,
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Speaker 2: thanks for the heads up. So you don't you start
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Speaker 2: a thread, a conversation thread, so that people can have conversations.
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Speaker 2: That's what you do. Looking at some of the things
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Speaker 2: that apparently Elon and Vivek are checking out here as
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Speaker 2: they're starting to. Here's one from just a couple of
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Speaker 2: days ago. Department of Education spent over a billion dollars
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Speaker 2: promoting DEI in America's schools four hundred and eighty nine million,
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty three thy seven hundred and ninety seven
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Speaker 2: dollars for race based hiring three hundred and forty three
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Speaker 2: million in change. I won't say all the numbers for
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Speaker 2: DEI programming one hundred and sixty nine and some change
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Speaker 2: million for DEI mental health initiatives. How about that. It
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Speaker 2: seems they are really laying out some of the things
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Speaker 2: they're concerned about. Obviously, Department of Education is something that
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Speaker 2: this administration is going to be making some tweaks too.
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Speaker 2: I saw someone as someone I know, and I'm not
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Speaker 2: going after this person. God bless you. You say whatever
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Speaker 2: you want to say. You know, it's on social media,
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Speaker 2: that's what you want to do. But the people that
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Speaker 2: will say I don't usually do this kind of thing
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Speaker 2: on social media, but dot dot dot and it was
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Speaker 2: like a you know, a TI rate about Linda McMahon
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Speaker 2: and why she shouldn't be over the Department of Education
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Speaker 2: or whatever. And that's fine. They're entitled to their opinion.
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Speaker 2: It's the thing that interests me about that part of
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Speaker 2: the conversation, not so much their opinion on Linda McMahon,
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Speaker 2: not so much their opinion on Department of Education, but
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Speaker 2: the fact that they're self professing that I don't usually
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Speaker 2: do this, but this is the hill that I'm that
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna die on the second time I've used it,
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Speaker 2: I know, But like this is this is where I'm
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Speaker 2: going to throw out my principle I don't do this
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Speaker 2: is I'm gonna I'm gonna do it on this one.
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Speaker 2: This is so important to me that Linda McMahon is
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Speaker 2: involved in the Department of Education, and as citizens, we
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Speaker 2: have a right to know who's in those positions and
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Speaker 2: have a right to know. But coming in you know
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Speaker 2: most of these names that have come up for these positions.
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Speaker 2: I know some of them. I know personally. I've got
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Speaker 2: cell numbers for some of these people, truthfully, and I'm
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Speaker 2: excited for them. People I've texted with, people I've talked
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Speaker 2: to on the phone, people that I've done interviews with.
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Speaker 2: I'm excited for them. It's great. Some of them I
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Speaker 2: don't know a lot about, and I can't sit here
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Speaker 2: and tell you that I'm an expert on them. I
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Speaker 2: know who Linda McMahon is, I know her past, I
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Speaker 2: know her time obviously working with the WWE, but I
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Speaker 2: can't tell you her qualifications to run the Department of Education,
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Speaker 2: or her lack thereof qualifications. I don't know. I can't
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Speaker 2: tell you. I know some of her resume, but I
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Speaker 2: can't tell you that this is a boy. I got
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Speaker 2: to sound off on this one. It's the echo chamber.
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Speaker 2: People crave the echo chamber. They want to say something
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Speaker 2: that they know other people are going to agree with,
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Speaker 2: and they're gonna go, oh, yeah, it doesn't matter. You know,
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Speaker 2: you want to contact your your senators and tell them
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Speaker 2: that you don't think that she should get the gig. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: do that. That has a better range than sounding off
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Speaker 2: on social media. If you want to go on social
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Speaker 2: media and say, hey, we need to all tell our
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Speaker 2: senators not to But guess what you live in Georgia.
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Speaker 2: Your senators probably don't like most of Trump's picks. That's
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Speaker 2: just how it is. That's the reality. You know, jack
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Speaker 2: us Off and Reverend Rkele, they're not gonna they're not
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Speaker 2: gonna They're not gonna like his picks. It's just the reality.
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Speaker 2: It's the hard, cold reality of it. So you can
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Speaker 2: save your time, you know what you can do. You
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Speaker 2: can focus on something else, Go back to whatever it
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Speaker 2: is you were focusing on before you decided that you
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Speaker 2: needed to sound off on it or sound off on it.
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Speaker 2: It's up to you. Again, I'm not going to tell
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Speaker 2: you how to live back to Doge. Some other things
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Speaker 2: they're focused on, Oh, apparently the irs majorly in the spotlight.
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Speaker 2: No big surprise there either, This is not a big shock.
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Speaker 2: They're also looking at many of the government jobs where
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Speaker 2: people don't go into the office, so rent or you know,
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Speaker 2: electricity being spent on these buildings that people aren't going
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Speaker 2: into to do their jobs. So some questions about the
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Speaker 2: need for that or maybe even the need possibly for
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Speaker 2: I don't know, those jobs. Maybe that should be something
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Speaker 2: to be checked out. The fact that many departments aren't
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Speaker 2: able to pass audits, that's another question that these guys have.
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Speaker 2: It will be interesting to see what they're able to
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Speaker 2: get done in the new year. I mean we are,
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Speaker 2: you know, like a month away. It's like a month
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Speaker 2: away before we're going to see how this is all
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Speaker 2: going to play out. But they're looking at the right things.
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Speaker 2: They're looking at ways to save us money as taxpayers.
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Speaker 2: They want to they want to streamline our the way
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Speaker 2: that we file taxes. They think it's ridiculous that we're
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Speaker 2: having to spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year
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Speaker 2: for us to you know, file our taxes, having to
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Speaker 2: spend money to do that, it's absurd. They want to
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Speaker 2: cut that out. Now, if you own one of those
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Speaker 2: companies that you know, files taxes for people, maybe you
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Speaker 2: should be sweating a little bit. Maybe it's going to
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Speaker 2: affect you. I've heard a number of people say, what
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Speaker 2: are they going to do about the arts? Are they're
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Speaker 2: going to go after the arts? Surely they're going to
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Speaker 2: go after the arts? And I don't. I don't have
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Speaker 2: they said that. I haven't seen anything about the arts.
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Speaker 2: I haven't seen any indications that they are. Unless it's
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Speaker 2: a lot of wasteful spending, any place that has wasteful
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Speaker 2: spending should probably be, you know, looking for ways to
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Speaker 2: stop wastefully spending. That's that's my suggestion. If you if
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Speaker 2: you have any, say, the wasteful spending in your department,
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Speaker 2: sort of outdoor but indoor. You know, if you like
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Speaker 2: you just want a little man caved. You'd like to
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Speaker 2: after the break. You know, I talk about going to
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Speaker 2: popular arts conventions like Dragon Con or Comic Con or
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Speaker 2: any of those events. Star Wars Celebration. There's one I
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Speaker 2: haven't been to and it happened over the weekend. I
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Speaker 2: think it would be a wild scene. Maybe, you know, twenty.
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Speaker 2: I can figure out if there's a way that I
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Speaker 2: can do this. But over the weekend in New York City,
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Speaker 2: a lot of redcoats, hats, bowls full of jelly, and
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Speaker 2: white beards. Santa Con happened over the weekend. It's basically
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Speaker 2: a pubcrawl and reindeer games for Santa celebrators and it
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Speaker 2: raises money for a lot of charities. They have a website,
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Speaker 2: so I guess they do it in multiple cities as well,
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Speaker 2: San Francisco, Cincinnati. It's a thing, So if you want
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Speaker 2: to check out their website, maybe start planning ahead for
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Speaker 2: next year. If Santa Con is something that you want
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Speaker 2: to do. Santa Con dot com that's the that's the
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Speaker 2: official website for Sorry, Santa Con dot NYC. That's the one. Sorry,
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Speaker 2: it's not dot com. Why is it not dot com
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Speaker 2: slash nyc Anyway, I guess somebody else grabbed the grab
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Speaker 2: the address before they could. All Right, some bad news
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Speaker 2: for coffee lovers. There's a growing demand and bad weather
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Speaker 2: in Brazil and Vietnam, and that's the world's top coffee producers,
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Speaker 2: so coffee prices could be seeing a spike. The price
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Speaker 2: of coffee beans skyrocketing to record highs, in some cases
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Speaker 2: three dollars and forty four cents a pound. They say
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Speaker 2: that's more than an eighty percent rise this year, and
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Speaker 2: the various types of beans have gone up, and they
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Speaker 2: say that coffee brands may consider raising prices in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five to help cope with the higher costs. That's
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Speaker 2: not good, not for the coffee. And I just told
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Speaker 2: you the other day, you know, drink coffee. It's good
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Speaker 2: for you. Well, I didn't tell you that, but I said,
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Speaker 2: that's what some of the experts are saying. So all right,
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Speaker 2: American worker there's notorious for not taking all their vacation days.
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Speaker 2: In fact, a new survey found just twenty percent of
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Speaker 2: respondents that they used all of their paid time off
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Speaker 2: last year, with an average worker with PTO saying they
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Speaker 2: had five vacation days left over that they didn't use
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Speaker 2: or roll over. So it says, but not taking the
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Speaker 2: days does not mean that we don't need a break.
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Speaker 2: Eighty percent of those surveys said they're feeling burned out,
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Speaker 2: they have financial struggles, they have fatigue, they have mental
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Speaker 2: health issues being the biggest factors they're dealing with. The
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Speaker 2: survey found that the average American worker says that they
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Speaker 2: need a real vacation every one hundred and ten days.
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Speaker 2: That means that you will likely need a vacation by
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Speaker 2: April twentieth, you know, round tax time. I guess all right,
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Speaker 2: how about this? It's pretty gross. A loss in. A
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Speaker 2: convenience store chain in Japan has launched a drinkable mayonnaise
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Speaker 2: Nomu Mayo is described as a chilled mayonnaise style drink
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Speaker 2: made with milk, dairy product and mayo seasoning. Lost in
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Speaker 2: describing it as the chilled drink Mayo fanatics have long
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Speaker 2: been waiting for, have they? Have they really been waiting
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Speaker 2: for it? Those who've tried it not so enthusiastic, with
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Speaker 2: social media posts describing it as unbelievably bad, awful, and disgusting.
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Speaker 2: Those aren't good reviews, not at all. Get ready for
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Speaker 2: nearly half the country's population to be traveling during the
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Speaker 2: holiday season. According to Triple A, a record one hundred
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Speaker 2: and nineteen point three million people will travel fifty miles
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Speaker 2: or more from home between December twenty first and at
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Speaker 2: January first. That's about three million more than last year.
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Speaker 2: Of those, one hundred and seven million will hit the roads,
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Speaker 2: seven point eight million will fly. Triple A says that
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Speaker 2: the best days to travel will be Christmas, even Christmas Day,
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Speaker 2: that there will be minimal traffic on those days. But
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Speaker 2: in the days before the holiday, they say, try hanging
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Speaker 2: the road before eleven am. So there you go. I
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Speaker 2: think that also ties in. We talked about optimism as
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Speaker 2: far as where things are headed in the country in
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Speaker 2: a little over a month, so I think that probably
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Speaker 2: has something to do with that as well. If you
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Speaker 2: are delivering gifts to friends and loved ones who aren't
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Speaker 2: able to do it in person, you'll likely be relying
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Speaker 2: on the post Office. If that's the case, you need
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Speaker 2: to know some key mailing dates to ensure those gifts
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Speaker 2: arrive in time for Christmas. The Postal Service has issued
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Speaker 2: holiday shopping deadlines. Here you go. A shipping deadlines. Here
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Speaker 2: they are December eighteenth for ground advantage service in first
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Speaker 2: class mail, a couple of days from now, December nineteenth
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Speaker 2: for Priority Mail service, December twenty first for Priority Mail
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Speaker 2: Express service. Keep those in mind. You run out of
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Speaker 2: dates to get stuff in the mail, and you're probably
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Speaker 2: gonna have line already, probably at that point now even
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Speaker 2: today where you're gonna have lines that'll do it. For
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