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Trillionaires Mean Free Markets Work · 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 2: Thursday morning, twenty fifth day of June. I'm Wes. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. I think I'm relatively caught up for
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Speaker 2: a lot of what happened last week, you know, trying
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Speaker 2: to get there, trying to get everything covered. I do
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Speaker 2: have a few things I still want to talk about
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Speaker 2: before I do that. On just one little personal note,
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Speaker 2: I just point out, and I think I may have
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Speaker 2: mentioned this earlier in the week, but my seventeen year
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Speaker 2: old has started his first job. That's official. He's gone
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Speaker 2: in a couple times now this week and worked. It's
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Speaker 2: a weird feeling when your kids were. Now he's done
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Speaker 2: some work. He's done some volunteer work, which obviously isn't
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Speaker 2: a job, but he takes it very seriously, so that's good.
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Speaker 2: He's done some work for me here on my shows
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Speaker 2: that I do. He's done some editing for some of
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Speaker 2: these shows that you've listened to. He has done some
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Speaker 2: He's done a few things related to this. It worked
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Speaker 2: on the Dragon Con pregame show with me. A few
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Speaker 2: things that we've done so he's done that. He has
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Speaker 2: actually done some you know, tutoring work. Not a big surprise,
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Speaker 2: the type of tutoring work would probably surprise you. But
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Speaker 2: he has tutored some competitors in some specific video game tournaments. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's that's very much on brand for him. So when
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Speaker 2: he told me, he explained to me that he was
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Speaker 2: going to be working with someone on prepping them for
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Speaker 2: a tournament, I just was like, oh, that's yeah, it
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Speaker 2: sounds like something you would do. And he's like, and
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Speaker 2: they're paying me, sorry what? So that was kind of cool.
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Speaker 2: He's earned money doing that, and now he's you know,
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Speaker 2: earning money with a job with an actual company, and
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Speaker 2: I proud of him for doing it. I started working
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Speaker 2: pretty much, you know, within a month of turning sixteen.
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Speaker 2: I think it was right away. My dad was not
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Speaker 2: big on you should start, you know at fifteen or
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Speaker 2: you know, some of these places now you can work
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Speaker 2: at fourteen, But he was big on by sixteen, you
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Speaker 2: need to be working somewhere, just starting to get get
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Speaker 2: the muscle memory in of what it meant to have
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Speaker 2: a job in those things. So so it's a little
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Speaker 2: surreal having him having a job now where he goes
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Speaker 2: into work. But that's happened. Life's happening. Speaking of life happening,
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Speaker 2: a few things to talk about. First of all, one
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Speaker 2: of the last things at least top of my head
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Speaker 2: now from last week that we haven't really addressed. We
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Speaker 2: talked about it on Made the Stars, the official IPO
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Speaker 2: for SpaceX. That happened. Of course, it was a huge
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Speaker 2: event on a number of levels, a company of that
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Speaker 2: caliber going public and putting Elon Musk into the trillionair
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Speaker 2: category for the you know, first ever he has since
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Speaker 2: I guess dropped, it's down to a measly nine hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty something billion just because of some fluctuations as
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Speaker 2: far as stocks and things, but you know, expected to
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Speaker 2: get back up at some point, probably to that trillion mark,
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Speaker 2: depending on where things go with the Star. And I
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Speaker 2: will say this just uh, there's no disclosure thing in
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Speaker 2: the podcast world. In radio, there would be some disclosure
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Speaker 2: things where you would have an opportunity to mention that
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Speaker 2: if you owned any stock, like if you had had
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Speaker 2: a had a podcast like Made of Stars and you
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Speaker 2: owned any of the SpaceX stock. I did jump in.
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Speaker 2: I didn't go crazy, but I jumped in just a
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Speaker 2: little bit. It was a Father's Day gift from my family.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna, I was thinking about doing it, and
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Speaker 2: then Jill said, happy Father's Day. You know, go for it.
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Speaker 2: So that's that's what ended up happening. But anyway, and
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Speaker 2: we watched it, of course at the beginning, and we
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Speaker 2: were excited about what it was doing. And then it's
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Speaker 2: kind of come back down to earth. I haven't checked
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Speaker 2: it in a couple of days. I know it's not,
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Speaker 2: you know, back where it was at least it wasn't
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Speaker 2: at last check. I don't know where it is at
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Speaker 2: the moment. It's one of those things where you just
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Speaker 2: kind of leave it alone. I feel like I did
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Speaker 2: watch the rocket launch yesterday and kind of say, all right,
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Speaker 2: well that's my rocket. That's my rocket going up. I
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Speaker 2: want to see how that's going. But you know, otherwise,
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Speaker 2: it's just one of those things you'll leave it alone.
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Speaker 2: I have a little, very very little bit of Tesla
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Speaker 2: and I you know, I don't have any you know,
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Speaker 2: just with both of those down. I'm not one of
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Speaker 2: those people that worked there at SpaceX and they became
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Speaker 2: kind of instant millionaires because of the shares that they
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Speaker 2: got for being employees and those kinds of things. So
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Speaker 2: the stock options, but yeah, there were several, you know,
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Speaker 2: four thousand or something forty four hundred people became millionaires
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Speaker 2: once the stock once it went for sale, once the
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Speaker 2: IPO started anyway, So that's that's happened. And that's that's
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Speaker 2: one of those things from last week we haven't really addressed,
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Speaker 2: is this idea that somehow the Great American Dream is
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Speaker 2: dead because Elon Musk became a trillionaire. You would think
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Speaker 2: that realistically, you could take someone who you know, came
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Speaker 2: came to the US from South Africa and started as
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Speaker 2: some companies and has been extremely successful in those companies,
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Speaker 2: finally getting a car that could be an electric car
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Speaker 2: that could be sustainable and useful A and and there's
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Speaker 2: some other car companies that are doing it right, but
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Speaker 2: a lot of them are still coming up short. And
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Speaker 2: he got it right. What he's been doing with rockets,
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Speaker 2: what he's been doing with people that have nerve nerve issues,
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Speaker 2: brain issues with Neurolink, what he's done for communication around
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Speaker 2: the world with Starlink. The fact that he's been able
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Speaker 2: to have sustainability in all of these different jobs as well,
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Speaker 2: relaunching boosters repeatedly, not just dumping them in the ocean.
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Speaker 2: What's happened with Tesla as far as that, And I'm
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Speaker 2: not talking about all these things to say, hey boy,
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Speaker 2: drive up stock. This is just me, just somebody who's
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Speaker 2: observed what's happened with this guy. And I remember at
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Speaker 2: one point with Tesla being a skeptic and saying, you know,
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Speaker 2: nobody's been able to get this car thing right. And
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Speaker 2: then he got it right. And of course he got
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Speaker 2: into politics in this last election, and it became a
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Speaker 2: he was a target. Everything that this man did became,
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Speaker 2: you know, under the microscope. It was scrutinized. He did
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Speaker 2: an awkward wave at a crowd of people, and people called
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Speaker 2: him a Nazi. There's an actual Nazi who has won
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Speaker 2: a nomination for Senate for the Democrats. We just had
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Speaker 2: the primaries in New York and all of the Mamdani
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Speaker 2: communist wing candidates have gotten nominations. Democrats better be very careful.
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Speaker 2: They've created a beast in New York and it could
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Speaker 2: be a big problem for them in other states. Probably
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Speaker 2: won't be a big problem for them in New York
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Speaker 2: because they know their voter block there. Right now, This
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Speaker 2: is a group of people there who is just kind
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Speaker 2: of this one track thing. They think that they're about
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Speaker 2: to have this revolution that they think that it's going
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Speaker 2: to be they're ready to take over the country and
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Speaker 2: they think they are, and we better be paying attention
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Speaker 2: to what they're doing because you have people that have
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Speaker 2: come in from other countries and have come in you
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Speaker 2: would think from other countries and said, well, I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: come here and I want to do right by the
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Speaker 2: American dream, But no, they want to take it down,
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Speaker 2: they want to destroy it. There are people and look,
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Speaker 2: they're the usual suspects, and I truly believe that that's
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Speaker 2: what Mom Dannie wants. But you know, as mayor of
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Speaker 2: New York, all he can do is try to destroy
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Speaker 2: our greatest city financially, you know, something that terrorists in
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Speaker 2: the past have tried to do with airplanes and bombs
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Speaker 2: under buildings and things in vans. So just know that's
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Speaker 2: an infiltration situation. You can sit there and say, well,
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Speaker 2: we're supposed to be welcoming to everybody. We should be,
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Speaker 2: but not to people who don't wish us well. And
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Speaker 2: we should not be welcoming to people who are trying
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Speaker 2: to destroy the US. There's just some things you should say. Hey,
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Speaker 2: this is a capitalist country, that's what we are. We
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Speaker 2: are a free market country and that's what we are.
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Speaker 2: And a democratic republic that's what we are. And if
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Speaker 2: you don't want to be part of that, and your
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Speaker 2: idea is that you have to try to change all
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Speaker 2: of those things, then we don't necessarily need to be
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Speaker 2: welcoming of that. I don't think so, you know, I
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Speaker 2: just don't. I think that if your idea as an
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Speaker 2: elected official is to you know, not honor your oath
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Speaker 2: as an elected official, you shouldn't. You shouldn't be an
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Speaker 2: elected official. And I know it's different when it's a mayor.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, he's doing what he can to get people
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Speaker 2: in place to cause more problems on the national level.
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Speaker 2: So that's what's been created there and that's what's happening.
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Speaker 2: Democrats better be very careful of that. But collectively, the
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Speaker 2: hatred for Elon Musk, the hatred for people who have
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Speaker 2: success is baffling. Well, it's not when you look at
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Speaker 2: it basically along party lines, that makes sense that they're
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Speaker 2: just gonna hate somebody who has success in a free
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Speaker 2: market in a capitalist world. But This is now their
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Speaker 2: example of you know, well, capitalism with out of control.
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Speaker 2: This guy has more money than he knows what to
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Speaker 2: do with than he and look the guy, I think,
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Speaker 2: what's all this? You hear all the stories. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I've heard all these stories about he carries twenty dollars
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Speaker 2: on him. That's a get You know, he lives in
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Speaker 2: a in a little u basically a shd like a
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Speaker 2: little tiny house. I know he has a house, he
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Speaker 2: has a mansion that but he doesn't spend most of
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Speaker 2: his time there. But he notoriously just you know, kind
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Speaker 2: of doesn't take a check from his job. That's why
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Speaker 2: he doesn't pay taxes. When people say, oh, he doesn't
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Speaker 2: pay taxes, his companies pay insane amounts of taxes. You
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Speaker 2: think that some one that has a trillion dollars in
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Speaker 2: net worth in these companies doesn't pay more taxes in
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Speaker 2: a year than everyone else has paid in taxes for
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Speaker 2: multiple years they combine. But they don't want that. They
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Speaker 2: don't want him to have alwa he's using loopholes that
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Speaker 2: have all this extra money and he's not paying taxes.
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Speaker 2: They're not honest about the methods used when you own
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Speaker 2: a company that's worth that much, you borrow money from
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Speaker 2: the company, and then it's all a tax right off.
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Speaker 2: And yes, it's loophole, and rich people do this. They
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Speaker 2: all do this. I have bigger issues with politicians who
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Speaker 2: get into office and they're worth a couple hundred thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars and then they stay in office for thirty forty
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Speaker 2: years and they're millionaires and borderline billionaires, And I got
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Speaker 2: bigger issues with that. To be completely honest with you,
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Speaker 2: that's a bigger concern for me than one person having
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Speaker 2: a trillion dollars. That's a much bigger concern to me. Right.
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Speaker 2: That's just where I'm at with all of it. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: I guess they're all maybe celebrating now that he's dropped
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Speaker 2: a bit. But you know, like I said, I certainly
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Speaker 2: think it's going to go back up. I wouldn't have
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Speaker 2: put any money in all of it if I didn't
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Speaker 2: think it was going to go back up. But you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm not in the Senate, I'm not in the House
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Speaker 2: of Representatives. I'm not in any kind of insider position.
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Speaker 2: And that's happened on both sides. But we kind of
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Speaker 2: famously have this group of people on the left who've
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Speaker 2: been in there for a really long time. I really
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Speaker 2: admire the politicians who get in and they do a
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Speaker 2: couple of terms and then they get out. You know,
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Speaker 2: I admire that a lot, and I know some that
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Speaker 2: do that. Our representative here in this part of Georgia
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Speaker 2: for a while, Drew Ferguson. I mean, somebody who got in,
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Speaker 2: did the job and left. And he didn't leave a
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Speaker 2: multi millionaire, Like, that's not what he was there to do.
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Speaker 2: He was there to represent his district and he was
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Speaker 2: there represent people that voted him into office, and it's
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Speaker 2: just interesting, like and represent the values of the country
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Speaker 2: and what the country was founded for. Anyway. So there's
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Speaker 2: that and a couple other things I just want to
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Speaker 2: quickly talk about when it comes to the World Cup.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, we talked a little bit about this yesterday,
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Speaker 2: but I feel like, again I should address a couple
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Speaker 2: of things, and I didn't. I started down this line,
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Speaker 2: and I was just kind of given my resume on
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Speaker 2: my soccer pass and if didn't start playing until I
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Speaker 2: was about twelve, or at twelve maybe, and you know,
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Speaker 2: played well into my adulthood up until my hip, up
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Speaker 2: until COVID. That's when I had to stop. And it
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Speaker 2: wasn't because of COVID. The COVID season ended. That that
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Speaker 2: season ended early because of COVID and they were shutting
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Speaker 2: down the parks and things, and it was at that
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Speaker 2: point where I was realizing, I'm having again issues with
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Speaker 2: my hip and I've just had a surgery to take
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Speaker 2: out scar tissue. I just need to stop. And it
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Speaker 2: was kind of a long gap there between seasons before
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Speaker 2: they started back up again, and I thought, you know what,
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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna I'm gonna tap out. I want to play.
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Speaker 2: I kept coaching, but I say all that because I
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Speaker 2: want it to be understood. And there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: purists when it comes to soccer, and understandably, I think
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Speaker 2: we make a lot of changes in a lot of sports,
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Speaker 2: in many cases, very unnecessarily. Some of them I think
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Speaker 2: are productive. Some of them I think don't really help
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Speaker 2: the game any they just make changes. I don't like
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Speaker 2: the pitch clock in baseball. I think that's stupid. I
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Speaker 2: know people have gotten used to it, and you know,
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Speaker 2: and some of the extra inning stuff run around second
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Speaker 2: base all that. I don't like it, but it's it
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Speaker 2: is what it is. You just kind of accept it
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Speaker 2: and you move on with sports. But I get why
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Speaker 2: there are purists when it comes to soccer. And one
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Speaker 2: of my biggest gripes with soccer, and if you watch
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Speaker 2: college soccer, you've seen they have a countdown clock, like
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Speaker 2: they start the clock and they count it down, and
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Speaker 2: I just think, and I know, this isn't like an
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Speaker 2: American thing. It's one of those things that we hear say,
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Speaker 2: give us a clock. That makes sense. And as this
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Speaker 2: World Cup is going on and there's still a lot
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Speaker 2: of Americans who don't get it, it's one of those
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Speaker 2: things that Americans gripe about. And the low scoring is
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Speaker 2: there's nothing you can do about that. That's the game.
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Speaker 2: That's how it works. It is kind of frustrating when
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Speaker 2: you're watching a game and you're watching a team that
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Speaker 2: their whole goal is to not score and to not
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Speaker 2: let anybody else score, and they just want to tie,
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Speaker 2: they want to draw. We just saw that against England
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Speaker 2: the other day and in this part of the game
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Speaker 2: that is I'm not gonna say I don't it's not
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Speaker 2: overly fun to watch those games. Sometimes it's kind of crazy.
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Speaker 2: It's like watching one of those old like you know,
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Speaker 2: the the Steelers playing somebody like the Browns when they
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Speaker 2: had good defenses and you know they're just grinding it out,
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Speaker 2: and or the Ravens when they were really good with
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Speaker 2: their defenses, and you know, playing the Steelers and you
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Speaker 2: get like a three to zero game and people, that's
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Speaker 2: boring and it's kind of fun watching defense anyway. The
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Speaker 2: clock is something that they they say they were purests.
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Speaker 2: We don't want to make any changes to the game,
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Speaker 2: and you go, okay, but you made changes in this
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Speaker 2: World Cup to a lot for basically another playing quarters,
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Speaker 2: it's two halves. They take a water break, a hydration
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Speaker 2: break halfway through each half, so effectively they're playing four quarters.
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Speaker 2: And they can say, oh no, no, no, it's a hydration break,
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Speaker 2: but it's a hydration break that's a three minute break
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Speaker 2: to show TV commercials and so the players can hydrate. Now.
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Speaker 2: I understand there are some part it's summertime, it's hot,
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Speaker 2: they need to drink their water. I get it. But
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Speaker 2: if you can do that, if you're capable of breaking,
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Speaker 2: you you're disrupting the half, the forty five minute half
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Speaker 2: system so that you can have mandatory commercial breaks for
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Speaker 2: the purposes of earning money, and again, free market, you
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Speaker 2: do it. I don't have an issue with it. I've
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Speaker 2: heard a few people grown and say, oh, it's capitalism,
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Speaker 2: that's capital's great. I got no issues with free market.
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Speaker 2: I don't like to work capitalism because that's really a
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Speaker 2: Caral Marx thing. But uh, it's a free market thing,
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Speaker 2: and that's fine. But don't be a purist and tell
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Speaker 2: me that you can break it into quarters now so
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Speaker 2: that you can show commercials for three minutes and then
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Speaker 2: add three minutes. Then it's give us a countdown clock.
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Speaker 2: Just count it down until the end of the quarter, right,
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Speaker 2: if you're gonna do quarters, you know, break it down,
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Speaker 2: break it down to twenty two and a half minutes.
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Speaker 2: Give us that three to two one, all right, and
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Speaker 2: then they take their hydration break, and then they get
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Speaker 2: another twenty two and a half minutes. And we don't
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Speaker 2: have to do all this stuff. We don't have to
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Speaker 2: do the added time. It's one of the things that
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Speaker 2: a lot of Americans get frustrated with, and they and
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Speaker 2: then the other part of it. I don't know what
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Speaker 2: they can do. But honestly, if I had someone collide
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Speaker 2: with me and I overacted as much as they do
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Speaker 2: when they hit the ground, I would be I would
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Speaker 2: be embarrassed. I don't know how they go home to
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Speaker 2: their families, and their families say, boy, it really looked
19:29
Speaker 2: like you broke your arm on that play. And then
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Speaker 2: as soon as the whistle blew and they decided if
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Speaker 2: they were going to pull a card or not, you
19:35
Speaker 2: jumped up and ran off. And that's what they do
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Speaker 2: over and over again. It's the most overacted, Like I really,
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Speaker 2: I really feel like there should be some daytime Emmy's
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Speaker 2: handed out for it. But it's the game. It's it's
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Speaker 2: spilled over into basketball. You see it a little bit
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Speaker 2: in football, not as much, not an American football, but
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Speaker 2: can you imagine in baseball somebody it just gets a
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Speaker 2: little dink on them and they roll around on the
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Speaker 2: ground like that for ten minutes. Clearly not as injured
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Speaker 2: as they appear to be. All Right, that was That
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Speaker 2: was the last thing I think from last week, because
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Speaker 2: I was going to talk about that last week, but
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Speaker 2: I wasn't doing the show because I was on vacation.
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Speaker 2: So that's it. That's the that's the last one. I think.
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Speaker 2: I think I've covered all the rollovers from last week,
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Speaker 2: so we can start focusing on next week and actually
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Speaker 2: after the break. Well, this can't be good. There's there's
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Speaker 2: like a day drinking trend that's on the rise, and
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Speaker 2: it's basically where people young adults that are moving up
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Speaker 2: the time to start the drinking earlier in the day
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Speaker 2: Shift being driven largely by gen Z. But we've heard
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Speaker 2: all these stats about how they're not drinking as much,
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Speaker 2: so but they're pushing this, I guess, and it's spreading
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Speaker 2: across other age groups, reflecting a more intentional approach to drinking.
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Speaker 2: People are choosing lower alcohol options without part of it, it's
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Speaker 2: not bad. That helps if they're doing lower alcohol and
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Speaker 2: it basically means they're getting home earlier, not overdoing it.
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Speaker 2: I guess it's about the experience. It just sounds scary
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Speaker 2: is somebody whose role is there to end relationships on
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Speaker 2: make money at this. A remote, part time job pays
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Speaker 2: about three thousand a month to deliver a very tough
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Speaker 2: but firm it's over conversation for everything from situationships to
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Speaker 2: way to dodge responsibility. Yeah, you got to just do it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm all for this being a job. This
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Speaker 2: when the Remember when the Biden administration they had all
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Speaker 2: the COVID got rid of so many jobs because you know,
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Speaker 2: over everything down. And then when the jobs came back,
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Speaker 2: they look at all these new jobs we created. Oh
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Speaker 2: it's the same. It's the same jobs. Some of them
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Speaker 2: are new, but they're just where they've combined two jobs
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Speaker 2: and there's less people. But anyway, Uh. There's a term
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Speaker 2: gaining attention now called the bag lady syndrome. It describes
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Speaker 2: a deep, often irrational fear of ending up financially unstable,
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Speaker 2: in a bag. For many women, it shows up as
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Speaker 2: a constant money anxiety, oversaving, second guessing every purchase, feeling
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Speaker 2: it's not really about how much money you have, but
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Speaker 2: the fear can feel very real, it can also get
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Speaker 2: financial plans. The best way to push back against it
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Speaker 2: savings habits, and improving your financial literacy so you feel
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Speaker 2: more confident in control. I know people like this. I
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Speaker 2: know multiple people that are like this. They just can't
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Speaker 2: enjoy any of their money. They can enjoy a lot
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Speaker 2: of things in life, they struggle with it because they're
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Speaker 2: worried about the future so much. And you have to
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Speaker 2: prepare for it, certainly, But all right, we hear a
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Speaker 2: lot about AI and it's so it's going to do
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Speaker 2: to our kids and things. But a lot of the
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Speaker 2: Gen Alpha kids are basically looking for a hands on
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Speaker 2: career someday. A survey of kids age five to sixteen
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Speaker 2: found that eighty five percent want jobs where they can
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Speaker 2: actually help others and tap into creativity. What stands out
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Speaker 2: they would consider one themselves. Parents largely supportive to drawn
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Speaker 2: to the income potential and work life balance. And they're
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Speaker 2: starting career conversations earlier than ever. That is early if
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Speaker 2: they're looking, I mean sixteen. But if you're five and
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Speaker 2: you're not just saying I want to be an astronaut
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Speaker 2: or fireman, this is a good thing. Not that those
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Speaker 2: are bad careers. I'm just saying that's what a lot
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Speaker 2: of kids that age think about. So basically, in the end,
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Speaker 2: it's less about chasing tech trends, more about fulfillment families
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Speaker 2: putting more value on happiness, purpose and real world skills
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Speaker 2: and just making the most money. But again, gotta be
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Speaker 2: aware of AI, how might it affect things? That'll do
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