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Deportations Start with Accountability · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 2: Show, Tuesday morning, twenty eighth day of January. I'm Wes.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for starting your day with me, or whatever time
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Speaker 2: of day you're listening. I mean, I hear from many
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Speaker 2: things that I made the mistake early on in my
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Speaker 2: with coffee first thing in the morning. Huge mistake because
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Speaker 2: it was not my habit, it was not my routine.
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Speaker 2: I enjoy coffee, I do very much. The problem was
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Speaker 2: how early in the day I was drinking it because
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Speaker 2: I needed that pick me up first thing in the morning,
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Speaker 2: instead of just maybe using it, you know, like a
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Speaker 2: headache medicine. If I stayed up too late watching football
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Speaker 2: and then or whatever sport, and most likely football, and
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Speaker 2: then I was coming into work really early and I
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Speaker 2: was really tired, then you know, do the coffee then
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Speaker 2: and use the caffeine for what it is now, it's
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Speaker 2: I have to have it, and I have to have
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Speaker 2: it pretty much right as I wake up in the mornings.
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Speaker 2: It's a little bit later than it used to be
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Speaker 2: because the commute's different, you know. It's I got the
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Speaker 2: home set up now, I don't have to go anywhere,
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Speaker 2: so I don't have to do that part of it.
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Speaker 2: The commute typically just involves one end of the house
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Speaker 2: of the other and it stop off at the coffee maker.
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Speaker 2: So if you're having your coffee with me still, I
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Speaker 2: appreciate it. And I hear from many of you that
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Speaker 2: it's part of that morning routine that you had before
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Speaker 2: and that you still have it. And see, that's good.
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Speaker 2: I don't have the commute. I don't miss the commute.
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Speaker 2: I do miss you know, some of my miss Scott Miller, right,
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Speaker 2: I miss Jesse, I miss Adam if you were listening
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Speaker 2: on those radio days. I miss the Gang, my brother
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Speaker 2: Matt who sat in and maybe you didn't even know
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Speaker 2: Matt was my brother, but we were doing those shows
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Speaker 2: together over the years. So I do miss those people.
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Speaker 2: I do. I don't miss that commute, That's all I'm
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Speaker 2: saying anyway. But I appreciate you keeping the routine going.
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Speaker 2: If you listened before while having your coffee, and even
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Speaker 2: if you're listening in your car on your commute, I
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Speaker 2: appreciate that very much. So I want to talk a
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Speaker 2: little bit about more on the presidents now. He's had
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Speaker 2: a week under his belt, a full week, and we're
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Speaker 2: into the second week of this second term, and a
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Speaker 2: couple things that are starting to happen. As we're starting
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Speaker 2: to see the deportations. That process has begun, and I
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Speaker 2: think that this is a big part of why America
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Speaker 2: shows Trump this time. I think there are still many
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Speaker 2: people on the left that are frustrated and confused. I
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Speaker 2: think we have a serious terminology thing that's going on here,
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Speaker 2: and it's a bit of a battle of words. This
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Speaker 2: relates a little bit to what we talked about yesterday,
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Speaker 2: with this idea, with this concept that we have to
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Speaker 2: be able to trust different outlets, We have to be
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Speaker 2: able to trust our media. I didn't mention. I don't
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Speaker 2: think I said Justice Department yesterday. Maybe I did, but
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Speaker 2: I said government. But Justice Department is certainly a big
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Speaker 2: component of that. And part of that is departments like
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Speaker 2: the people carrying out these deportations. I understand there's going
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Speaker 2: to be these elements of this sort of nobility, this
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Speaker 2: idea that you're the bandit or you're the Duke Boys,
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Speaker 2: or you know what, the Dukes of hazard Like there's
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Speaker 2: a Robin hood, these ideas that you're somehow bucking the
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Speaker 2: system and you're fighting against the man. And I understand
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Speaker 2: that that's that's been a part of you know, storytelling
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Speaker 2: for a very very long time. Star Wars has the
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Speaker 2: empire and the rebellion and you're fighting the system and
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Speaker 2: all that stuff, fighting the system. Directly from the opening
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Speaker 2: theme of Dukes of Hazards, I realized that anyway, like
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Speaker 2: two modern day robin hoods.
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Speaker 1: Yeeha.
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Speaker 2: But what's interesting to me about what's going on now
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Speaker 2: is we we had and there were two key components
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Speaker 2: of this election that I think people were four. I know,
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Speaker 2: we had people who were against Trump on one side.
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Speaker 2: We talked about this a great length leading up to
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Speaker 2: the election. But the people that were just anti their
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Speaker 2: whole mindset was, you know, we have to get rid
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Speaker 2: of this guy. We have and this has gone on
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Speaker 2: all the way back to I think the first impeachment,
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Speaker 2: when it was like let's just embarrass him. You know,
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Speaker 2: let's rub his nose in the dog pooh on the carpet.
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Speaker 2: That's what we want to do. That's the idea that
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Speaker 2: we're going to really embarrass the guy by doing this impeachment.
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Speaker 2: That was the idea. Right, So you had the anti
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Speaker 2: and then you had the people that were saying, look,
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Speaker 2: say whatever you want to say, do whatever you want
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Speaker 2: to do. It's the economy, stupid part of the economy.
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Speaker 2: Also connected to the border. There were two big issues,
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Speaker 2: and Republicans really focused on that. Well, it was important
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Speaker 2: to focus on that. Now, the other part of this
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Speaker 2: that you have to at least throw in the mix,
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Speaker 2: and it's not really related to what I'm talking about,
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Speaker 2: but the other part of it certainly was the Justice
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Speaker 2: Department going after Trump and a lot of people, I
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Speaker 2: think feel like there's a certain element of that whole,
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Speaker 2: you know, the rebellion, fighting the system kind of thing
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Speaker 2: that work was happening. Trump's mug shot ultimately becoming kind
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Speaker 2: of part of the rallying tool. They're saying that, you know,
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Speaker 2: the presidential portrait, did you see that it's like his
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Speaker 2: basically it's almost like his mug shot pretty much anyway,
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Speaker 2: or is it the actual mug shot. Somebody told me
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Speaker 2: that it was and I was like, I don't think
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Speaker 2: it's really the mugshot. It just looks like it. But
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Speaker 2: the point is, ultimately, people were concerned about the economy
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Speaker 2: and the border, and you could say all those other things.
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Speaker 2: I think the left really put all their cards on ooh,
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Speaker 2: Trump's a felon and abortion, and they thought that was
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Speaker 2: going to be everything. That was going to be the
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Speaker 2: thing that would carry the day for them ultimately, and
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Speaker 2: it wasn't. Because people were concerned about the border. People
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Speaker 2: were concerned about inflation and the economy. Now, the inflation
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Speaker 2: and the economy not an immediate fix. There's no immediate
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Speaker 2: fix for it. There are things that you can do
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Speaker 2: that can make it worse. We saw four years of that.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things you can do to make
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Speaker 2: it worse. One of the things that you can do
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Speaker 2: to ultimately, long term, make it worse is just open
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Speaker 2: the border up to anybody that wants to come in
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Speaker 2: and do whatever they want to do and put their
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Speaker 2: hands out and ask for things. You can do that.
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Speaker 2: That's something that you can do if you want to
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Speaker 2: make things worse and we've known that there have been
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Speaker 2: a wide ranging variety of people who've come across the border.
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Speaker 2: Have there been people to come across the border that
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Speaker 2: genuinely were coming from horrible situations and that they just
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Speaker 2: needed some help? Absolutely? Absolutely those people are certainly amongst
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Speaker 2: the people who've come in. Are there people who just said, Hey,
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Speaker 2: I heard anybody can go over there, and I'd love
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Speaker 2: to live there. I don't like where I live now.
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Speaker 2: It's not terrible, It's just not where I want to be,
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Speaker 2: but I'd like to go over there, and I'd like
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Speaker 2: to give this American dream a try. Yes, some of
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Speaker 2: those people came in. Are there people who came in
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Speaker 2: and said, Hey, I heard they're letting just anybody in
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Speaker 2: and they'll give you stuff. They'll give you food, they'll
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Speaker 2: give you shelter, they'll ultimately give you education, they'll give
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Speaker 2: you health care, they'll take care of you, and really
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Speaker 2: they're not going to ask a whole lot out of
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Speaker 2: you for very long or for a very long time.
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Speaker 2: And then, you know, all we got to do eventually
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Speaker 2: is maybe, you know, vote for the people giving us
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Speaker 2: the free stuff. And whenever we get a chance to vote,
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Speaker 2: and if we stay there for at least nine months.
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Speaker 2: Maybe we can you know, have a baby and then
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Speaker 2: be you know, residents, we can have citizenship for that baby.
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Speaker 2: And there's some of those people that came in. And
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Speaker 2: then there's also, yes, there's reports of countries going we're
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Speaker 2: going to just clean out some of our absolute worst
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Speaker 2: people from asylums and prisons and we're just gonna start
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Speaker 2: shipping them on up there, give them an easy shot
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Speaker 2: to get in. Reports of that. I know, you got
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Speaker 2: people saying that didn't happen. That's not real. That's like
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Speaker 2: the doll people eating dog story. It's not real. But
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Speaker 2: I'm sure there are people that have come in that
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Speaker 2: fit that description. There's people who've come in specifically with
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Speaker 2: the intentions of doing horrible things in this country. All
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Speaker 2: of that is true, all of that. So are there
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Speaker 2: people who've come in that really and truly need help. Yes,
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Speaker 2: those people have to all be vetted. That's the issue.
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Speaker 2: The Vice President just had his interview and I think
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Speaker 2: it was a CBS and he basically said, look, we
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Speaker 2: got to vet people. We got to know who they are.
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Speaker 2: We have to vet all of them, we have to
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Speaker 2: know who they are. And that's true. We have to
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Speaker 2: do that. We have to know who's here, and we
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Speaker 2: also have to respect the people who went through the
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Speaker 2: proper channels to get their paperwork in order right, people
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Speaker 2: who applied to come into the country, people who requested
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Speaker 2: a work visa, people who got a sponsor from a
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Speaker 2: company in America to say hey, we'd like to sponsor
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Speaker 2: them to come here and work. We have businesses here
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Speaker 2: locally that do that. One of them is Columbus State University.
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Speaker 2: A lot of professors and things that have come in
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Speaker 2: and been sponsored to come in and work. My wife
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Speaker 2: applied for a work visa through Columbus State with her
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Speaker 2: first job in the US, and we had to go
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Speaker 2: through all the channels and we did. She went through
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Speaker 2: all every bit of it, and we filed the paperwork,
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Speaker 2: and we paid the money, and we did all the
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Speaker 2: things that you're supposed to do. And I've said here,
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Speaker 2: there's a process you go through, and could it be streamlined,
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Speaker 2: could it be made easier, could it be made more affordable.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how all of that works. I don't
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Speaker 2: know how to make those changes. I do feel like
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Speaker 2: there's some improvements to be made, but we're now in
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Speaker 2: a position with a new sheriff in town who says, look,
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Speaker 2: those people still should have priority. And we have people
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Speaker 2: who've come in that you know, we're not necessarily going
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Speaker 2: to take them all out. We're going to take the
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Speaker 2: people out who should have been vetted. We're going to
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Speaker 2: vet the people who came in. We want to know
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Speaker 2: who's here, we want to know what their intentions are,
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Speaker 2: we want to know how long they plan to stay.
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Speaker 2: And of course you've probably heard a lot of talk
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Speaker 2: about the president wanting to change this birthright citizenship thing,
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Speaker 2: or just questioning what the meaning of the law is.
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Speaker 2: And this is where we're going to really dig into
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Speaker 2: some everybody's going to become an expert. Everybody's going to
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Speaker 2: become a constitutional law expert. Remember years ago, there were
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Speaker 2: some shows that came on Netflix and it was like,
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Speaker 2: this is a story about a person who was convicted
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Speaker 2: of something, and now we have a Netflix documentary about it,
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Speaker 2: and everybody suddenly became an expert on law. I know
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Speaker 2: everything about the law. I know what should be and
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Speaker 2: shouldn't be, and we do that from time to time.
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Speaker 2: We have all these immigration experts, and we're gonna have
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Speaker 2: these constitutional law experts on it. The question is, should
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Speaker 2: you be able to come in the country illegally without
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Speaker 2: any vetting, without any particular reason to be here other
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Speaker 2: than to have a baby, have the baby, and then
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Speaker 2: instantly everybody involved gets citizenship, and it's sort of just
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Speaker 2: been accepted that that was okay, that that was legal.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know of another country in the world
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Speaker 2: that will allow you to enter their country, have a baby,
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Speaker 2: and then instantly that baby is as a citizen there
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Speaker 2: and you have all rights to become a citizen there
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Speaker 2: as well. I don't think there's another one. I've heard
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Speaker 2: people say there's not another one. I'm not away. I
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Speaker 2: couldn't find that there's another one. I think that we're
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Speaker 2: the only one that's done that, And I don't know
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Speaker 2: that that was ever really the intention. Now, was there
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Speaker 2: some benefit to that over the last two hundred and
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Speaker 2: almost fifty years. Certainly? Should it be relevant now? It
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Speaker 2: seems really outdated to carry the law out the way
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Speaker 2: that it's been carried out. Now, Should it continue to
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Speaker 2: be that's going to be the debate moving forward, and
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Speaker 2: there'll be lots of discussions on that. I think it's
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Speaker 2: pretty ridiculous myself. I think it's ridiculous. You have a baby,
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Speaker 2: You're automatically easy for you to Now maybe you should
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Speaker 2: have a chance to file all the necessary paperwork and
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Speaker 2: request it. But I don't know about this automatic It
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Speaker 2: does seem a bit much anyway. So now that the
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Speaker 2: ICE agents are doing their thing, we have celebrities, We're
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Speaker 2: back to the celebrities telling us what's important. Selena Gomez.
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Speaker 2: I like Selena Gomez. I like only murders in the building.
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Speaker 2: I'm a huge Martin short Steve Martin fan. I am
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Speaker 2: here in my studio looking over to another part of
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Speaker 2: my office area where I can see a poster, the
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Speaker 2: theater poster coming Christmas. Three Amigos. It's my favorite movie
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Speaker 2: of all time. Love it, love it, big fan of
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Speaker 2: those guys. And when I heard, oh, they've got a
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Speaker 2: show together, and it's in the spirit of it's sort
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Speaker 2: of a modernized version of sort of you know, classic
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Speaker 2: Sherlock Holmes ty, Oh, you're gonna have some mystery that
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Speaker 2: we have to solve. This would be great. There's no
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Speaker 2: Chevy Chase. There's a Selena Gomez. I like her for that.
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Speaker 2: But Selena Gomez, who has gone to social media and
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Speaker 2: started to basically complain and she displayed a Mexican flag
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Speaker 2: and she says that she's so sorry. She's apparently in
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Speaker 2: tears in her video, and she says, all of my
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Speaker 2: people are getting attacked, the children. I don't understand, she said,
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Speaker 2: while crying. I'm so sorry. I wish I could do something,
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Speaker 2: but I can't. I don't know what to do. I'll
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Speaker 2: try everything, I promise. She deleted the video soon after,
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Speaker 2: and they say a screenshot posted another now deleted Instagram
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Speaker 2: story simply with a caption saying, apparently it's not okay
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Speaker 2: to show empathy for people. No, it is. It is
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Speaker 2: okay to show empathy for people. The problem is that,
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Speaker 2: and this is something that comes up. There's no accountability
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Speaker 2: being asked for the people who've put themselves in that position.
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Speaker 2: You can say, oh, these kids that are being torn
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Speaker 2: apart from their families. Look, my brother was just in
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Speaker 2: a all right. My older brother was in a car
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Speaker 2: accident not long ago, and the person who hit him
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Speaker 2: was taken into custody apparently intoxicated while driving, and there
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Speaker 2: was a kid with him in the car, and the
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Speaker 2: police had to take the kid, I guess with him
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Speaker 2: to the police station and the guy said, well, the
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Speaker 2: kid can just come with me, and they said no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: he can't come where you're going. The guy made a
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Speaker 2: decision to drive a car while intoxicated, put the kid's
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Speaker 2: life at risk, and that ultimately led to that separation.
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Speaker 2: No one is questioning if that's okay. Should the kid
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Speaker 2: go into a jail cell with his intoxicated father. No,
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Speaker 2: they have to be separated. You have to sit back
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Speaker 2: and you have to say, look, there are circumstances that
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Speaker 2: people put themselves in were ultimately their decisions have led
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Speaker 2: to these things. Does it stink that there are people
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Speaker 2: that are gonna be taken out of the country that uh,
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Speaker 2: maybe they have family that won't be taken out or
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Speaker 2: they're gonna be separated from their Yeah, that stinks. Is
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Speaker 2: it just? Is it acceptable? And I've got friends that
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Speaker 2: are posting me, Oh, here's what you do, here's how
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Speaker 2: you avoid ice. Don't answer the door. They can't make
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Speaker 2: you do anything. Why why are we why are we
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Speaker 2: bucking law enforcement period? Why are we playing this game?
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Speaker 2: Why why is this become a we're gonna tell you ways?
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Speaker 2: Because honestly, if the same person that's posting this had
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Speaker 2: something stolen from the stolen from them, And the police
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Speaker 2: went to a criminal's house and said, we're here because
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Speaker 2: you stole something from that. That person wouldn't say, hey, hey, hey,
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Speaker 2: keep all my stuff inside. Hi, don't answer the door.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to do what the police say. You're
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Speaker 2: gonna get people hurt, You're gonna get people killed, You're
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Speaker 2: gonna get make things more complicated. If people are going
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Speaker 2: to try to fight the ice, people that are showing
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Speaker 2: up to do their jobs. I know we have this
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Speaker 2: thing where we think it's okay, we have to fight
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Speaker 2: the system. We have to fight the system. Honestly, Ice
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Speaker 2: deporting people is fighting the system. This is the rebellion
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Speaker 2: it is. I know people want to paint Trump is
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Speaker 2: he's the emperor from Star Wars. He's not. The swamp
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Speaker 2: is the empire, and this is still fighting that whole system.
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Speaker 2: And I understand there are people who certainly are gonna
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Speaker 2: have empathy for people that are dealing with all. They're
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Speaker 2: gonna have sympathy, They're gonna have empathy, They're gonna feel
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Speaker 2: badly for people that are dealing with this. But at
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Speaker 2: some point we have to realize that accountability lies with
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Speaker 2: the people who made these decisions. If you're supporting and
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Speaker 2: encouraging people to continue to make bad decisions, well then
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Speaker 2: after the break. So are you familiar with the term
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Speaker 2: couch friend? This is something that is circulating on social media.
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Speaker 2: It's the idea that you have a friend that you
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Speaker 2: don't have to do anything with in particular, you just
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Speaker 2: hang out. And I guess one of those things might
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Speaker 2: be that you would just you know, sit on the couch,
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Speaker 2: and I guess that's where the term comes from. It
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Speaker 2: could be any number of sort of menial activities. Maybe
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Speaker 2: it's just going shopping together, right and you know, just
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Speaker 2: any sort of small task that you have to complete,
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Speaker 2: you just kind of do it together and there's no
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Speaker 2: pressure to talk, there's no pressure for it to be
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Speaker 2: a particularly overly social event. It's just somebody that you
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Speaker 2: can just hang out with. And this has been shared
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Speaker 2: around on social media, one particular user named Megan Shearer
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Speaker 2: saying something that I wholeheartedly believe would change everybody's life
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Speaker 2: is to have a couple of solid couch friends. Couch
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Speaker 2: friends are the ones who show up at your house
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Speaker 2: or show up you show up at theirs, and you
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Speaker 2: can just sit on the couch and do nothing or
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Speaker 2: anything together. Couch friends are the ones you don't always
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Speaker 2: need a planned activity for, like we're gonna meet for
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Speaker 2: coffee at so and so time, or go for a
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Speaker 2: walk or take a class together or whatever. Couch friends
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Speaker 2: are the ones that you can just sit with in
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Speaker 2: absolute silence. I agree with that sentiment, and I think
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Speaker 2: you kind of need some of those people in your life.
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Speaker 2: Not everybody has them, and not everybody can be one
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Speaker 2: of them, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. But
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Speaker 2: if you have a friend like that, it can be
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Speaker 2: convenient and good for you. I think I agree with
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Speaker 2: this as a concept. Americans love cheese. No shocker there.
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Speaker 2: This is not breaking news and other news, water is wet.
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Speaker 2: The average American eating forty two pounds of cheese a year.
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Speaker 2: That seems like a lot. I eat more cheese, I'm
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Speaker 2: sure than I should. I eat less than I used to.
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Speaker 2: Forty two pounds still sounds like a lot, even in
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Speaker 2: my prime cheese eating days. When it comes to favorites,
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Speaker 2: no surprise here either. Cheddar rules, at least according to
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Speaker 2: a new survey done by Casino Dot ca It's an
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Speaker 2: online casino rating site. Cheddar the favorite in twenty four
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Speaker 2: states and including California, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Mozzarella the second favorite,
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Speaker 2: with seventeen states preferring it. New York, New Jersey, and Florida.
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Speaker 2: Pepper Jack favorites in Kansas, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. Residents
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Speaker 2: of Hawaii, Louisiana, and Oregon like smoked gouda. That surprises me,
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Speaker 2: I think with Louisiana, I don't know a whole lot
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Speaker 2: about the smoked gouda in Cajun culture, but it makes
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Speaker 2: sense for me for Hawaii and Oregon that they would
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Speaker 2: have sort of a you know, kind of a higher
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Speaker 2: end that sounds like a higher end cheese than the
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Speaker 2: others we're talking about. Colby preferred in Wyoming, Bree with
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Speaker 2: the nod in DC, Havardi in New Hampshire, and Americans
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Speaker 2: in Delaware.
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Speaker 1: Cheese.
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Speaker 2: I completely get it. And by the way, Cheddar for Georgia, Alabama,
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Speaker 2: and South Carolin line in Tennessee kind of our whole
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Speaker 2: region except down into Florida, so and up into North
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Speaker 2: Carolina and as far as Kentucky. Just basically the whole
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Speaker 2: southeast excluding Arkansas, Florida, and Louisiana and that kind of
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Speaker 2: hits us for most of the South. Virginia also dips
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Speaker 2: into the mozzarella category. Yeah, and you know, it's that
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Speaker 2: challenge based on what you're eating. I also think, and
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Speaker 2: you know, I like a lot of it. I like
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Speaker 2: all of it. I really do. There's not many cheeses
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Speaker 2: that I don't like. I like it a lot. You know. Hey,
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Speaker 2: women's sports have seen a huge spike in popularity over
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Speaker 2: the past few years, and they say it's gen Z
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Speaker 2: viewers leading the charge. According to data compiled by Civic Science,
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Speaker 2: young Americans are tuning into more women's sports these days,
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Speaker 2: the w NBA leading the way. Fifty two percent of
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Speaker 2: people between the ages of eighteen and twenty four say
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Speaker 2: they've become more interested in watching women's sports, up five
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Speaker 2: points from twenty twenty two, and for the first time ever,
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Speaker 2: fans are following the WNBA more than women's college basketball,
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Speaker 2: largely due probably to Caitlin Clark, who they were following
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Speaker 2: when she was playing college basketball and now in the WNBA.
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Speaker 2: And it's not just women watching either, they say. Male
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Speaker 2: viewership is up thirty four percent, of men saying that
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Speaker 2: they watch the WNBA that is up twenty four percent
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Speaker 2: from the year before. I have a theory on this,
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Speaker 2: and it is not to discount any of the progress
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Speaker 2: that's been made as far as marketing WNBA and really
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Speaker 2: trying to put some effort out into it. I think
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Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark is certainly a significant part of the interest there.
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Speaker 2: And I think gambling. I think if you can give
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Speaker 2: guys a reason to gamble, then they'll watch. I think
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Speaker 2: that's what The fact that it's so easy now in
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Speaker 2: so many plays is uh to cast your bets and
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Speaker 2: then sit back and watch. I think that's that's probably
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Speaker 2: a big part of it. That's my guess. Anyway, that'll
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