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Who Has Been Running Things for Three Years? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, sixth day of January. I'm West Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. Rolling on into a new week, our full
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Speaker 2: week of the new year, first one. Not for some
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Speaker 2: of the area's school kids. Though some I guess are
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Speaker 2: back today. Some go back tomorrow. I don't know if
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Speaker 2: there's any going back after tomorrow, but kids will be
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Speaker 2: back in school at some point this week. I assume, right,
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Speaker 2: gotta figures most of them will be back tomorrow. I
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Speaker 2: would think by that point. But I know that today
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Speaker 2: there are teachers that are going back. They have to
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Speaker 2: report and they work on their planning and probably some
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Speaker 2: of the final grading things from before the break. If
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Speaker 2: they didn't get all that stuff done. Some of those
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Speaker 2: teachers are all over it. They got their final grades
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Speaker 2: are done, they've already turned it in. Grades are finalized,
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Speaker 2: they're done. They can start focusing on what's coming up
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Speaker 2: in the next semester of school. That's what they can do. Others,
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Speaker 2: I guess are finalizing that stuff, and I'm not evaluating.
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that you should have had it done
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Speaker 2: or you shouldn't have had it done. We got lots
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Speaker 2: of teachers that listen. I appreciate you for listening. And
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Speaker 2: I'm far from being critical, all right, far from being
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Speaker 2: critical one way or the other. Perhaps you were just
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Speaker 2: too busy teaching to have all those grades done before
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Speaker 2: the break. Perhaps you had other things to worry about,
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Speaker 2: you were being a good teacher to those students. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying there's one strategy that's better than the others.
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Speaker 2: Who am I to judge? Not me. I don't do
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Speaker 2: any judging here, at least not in most cases. I
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Speaker 2: try not to be a judgmental person. Questions and make observations.
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Speaker 2: That's what I try to do here, and went appropriate
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Speaker 2: talk with people and ask them questions and make observations
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Speaker 2: with them. So one quick note just on that subject.
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Speaker 2: A frequent guest radio show in here over the years.
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Speaker 2: He is the former representative in US Congress for District
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Speaker 2: three for Georgia, Drew Ferguson. I talked to Drew the
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Speaker 2: other day, right after the new Congress was sworn in.
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Speaker 2: Drew now out he decided he was not going to
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Speaker 2: run again, and we swapped a couple of text messages,
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Speaker 2: and I'll just say it was fantastic having him on
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Speaker 2: the show many times. I would never rule out having
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Speaker 2: him back on the show. He has some insight and
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Speaker 2: expertise on things that go on in the house that
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Speaker 2: he has shared with me over the years. He has
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Speaker 2: given me a lot of insight on how things work,
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Speaker 2: what's gone on. I suppose at some point in time
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Speaker 2: he may want to open up more about that, and
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Speaker 2: we would love to have him on any time he
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Speaker 2: wants to. I just you know, we swapped a few
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Speaker 2: texts and I told him, you know, don't a don't
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Speaker 2: be a stranger, first of all, but you know, thanked
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Speaker 2: him for the work that he put in, always keeping
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Speaker 2: District three in Georgia and mine with decisions he made,
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Speaker 2: keeping the state of Georgia in mine, and then of
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Speaker 2: course keeping the country in mind. And it's been great
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Speaker 2: being able to get to know him and have him
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Speaker 2: on the show many many days. He was always available.
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Speaker 2: I wanted to get him on one more time before
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Speaker 2: he stepped down, but that's it didn't work out. Holidays
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Speaker 2: and all that. So we're getting closer to election, sorry,
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Speaker 2: and to inauguration day. I had a flashback. I went
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Speaker 2: back to pre election. Inauguration day is coming up rather quickly.
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Speaker 2: Feels like it's happening quickly. I know for some it's
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Speaker 2: not happening quickly enough. It certainly feels like if it
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Speaker 2: would just get here, we could start getting some things done.
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Speaker 2: I feel like things are already kind of starting to
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Speaker 2: get done. I know that was the perception I think
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Speaker 2: prior to the holidays, as certainly, we did a whole
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Speaker 2: couple of shows about sort of the economic outlook on things,
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Speaker 2: positivity that people were having as far as getting a
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Speaker 2: new previous president where things were in a different place
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Speaker 2: when he was in office. And I feel that that
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Speaker 2: positivity certainly has rolled over into the new year. We
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Speaker 2: do now have a few things, though, on the horizon,
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Speaker 2: and that we're a little concerned about with possibilities of
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Speaker 2: terror attacks, and we've had two things that have already
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Speaker 2: happened right at the start of the year that are
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Speaker 2: concerning and when it comes to mental health, when it
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Speaker 2: comes to folks being radicalized, these are things that we
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Speaker 2: have to be vigilant about and aware of. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I know that right after the two instances happened, the
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Speaker 2: one in New Orleans, the one in Vegas, we had
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Speaker 2: the incoming president talking about the fact that, you know,
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Speaker 2: he was trying to tell people that the border was
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Speaker 2: a problem, Democrats weren't listening, and the media wasn't listening.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how much that played into what I've
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Speaker 2: heard from from these two instances, how much any of
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Speaker 2: that really played into what happened and how it happened.
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Speaker 2: But I do still feel like we have to have
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Speaker 2: concerns primarily about mental health. I know that that certainly
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Speaker 2: seems to apply to the situation in Vegas. I don't
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Speaker 2: know how much of the what ultimately I guess is
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Speaker 2: an isis attack of some kind in New Orleans how
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Speaker 2: much mental health plays into that. I think to some degree,
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Speaker 2: you have to have some sort of mental issue or
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Speaker 2: instability to decide you're going to murder innocent people, and
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Speaker 2: that's sort of mass murder capacity. So I think we
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Speaker 2: have to remind ourselves that not only is that a
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Speaker 2: major priority for us moving forward and should be, I
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Speaker 2: don't know that it's as much of a priority for
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Speaker 2: everyone as it should be, and that includes us on
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Speaker 2: individual levels. We have to all make sure that our
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Speaker 2: mental health is where it needs to be. And this
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Speaker 2: is something that societally we've made some changes with. We've
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Speaker 2: accepted the fact that treating everything in this sort of
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Speaker 2: macho way about everything, especially with men, that doesn't always
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Speaker 2: You can't just macho it away. Okay. It's like when
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Speaker 2: I see players dismissing those angel caps when they don't
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Speaker 2: want to wear them in football games that are available
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Speaker 2: to them, if they want to wear them on the fields,
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Speaker 2: if they're concerned about concussions. I was disappointed that to
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Speaker 2: a tongue of I looo was very dismissive about it.
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Speaker 2: I understand he doesn't want to wear one. That's fine.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how much it would benefit him to
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Speaker 2: wear it in the conditions that he has been in
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Speaker 2: following concussions and things. But it's just the dismissive nature
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Speaker 2: of all of it. Now, maybe he's gone back afterwards
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Speaker 2: and said, look, it's just not for me. Maybe he's
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Speaker 2: done that. I don't know, but I saw him in
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Speaker 2: an interview basically saying no, I won't wear it. Question,
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Speaker 2: and you know, I guess maybe to play devil's advocate,
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Speaker 2: and again not to be judgmental, but maybe he was
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Speaker 2: just tired of hearing the question and maybe he felt
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Speaker 2: like he'd answered it enough. I've seen a few players,
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Speaker 2: former players mocking those things, and I just think you
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Speaker 2: can't just matcho away a problem. You can't. I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: warrant it in my day, so I don't know why
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Speaker 2: they would wear. You just can't do that, And that's
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Speaker 2: not the solution to our mental health issues. But you
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Speaker 2: take mental health in general and know that there are
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Speaker 2: people that are struggling. And then you throw in the
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Speaker 2: constant verbal attacks on politics when you label one side
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Speaker 2: as extremist, or you label one side as being, you know,
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Speaker 2: a white supremacist or extreme alt right, and all these
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Speaker 2: sorts of terms, and you start calling the soon to
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Speaker 2: be president of the United States again basically a white
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Speaker 2: supremacist or hitler or all these of horrible things. You
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Speaker 2: ask him repeated questions over and over and over again
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Speaker 2: about white supremacy, to the point where people start to believe,
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Speaker 2: why do they keep asking him about white supremacy? And
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Speaker 2: you know, that was something that went on over and
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Speaker 2: over and over again. They changed his words that he
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Speaker 2: used referring to those people protesting in West Virginia. All
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Speaker 2: those sorts of things get factored in and then people
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Speaker 2: that are not stable suddenly decide, you know what, he's bad,
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Speaker 2: I want to do something that is that is righteous
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Speaker 2: for all, And then you know, then you get assassination attempts.
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Speaker 2: Then you get people who feel like it's okay to
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Speaker 2: murder someone because you know you don't like him. It's
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Speaker 2: okay to murder someone because they're the CEO of a
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Speaker 2: healthcare company that didn't treat me for my back, so
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Speaker 2: I want to kill them, and people say, yeah, you
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Speaker 2: get them, Luigi. And it's awful. It's a problem that
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Speaker 2: we have to constantly be aware of. But maybe the
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Speaker 2: first thing that we can do without even having to
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Speaker 2: take that self reflexive moment and inventory of our mental health,
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Speaker 2: is to say, we can't allow people to use that
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Speaker 2: sort of hateful, awful verbiage and just throw it around.
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Speaker 2: If everyone is hitler and you just throw it around
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Speaker 2: willing nilly, then you're basically taking away the importance and
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Speaker 2: significance of someone that is that evil and that does
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Speaker 2: something that horrific. If you call everything racist even when
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Speaker 2: it's not racist, but you're doing it for some sort
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Speaker 2: of an advantage to make your point, well then you're
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Speaker 2: dismissing the actual racists in the world, and you're making
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Speaker 2: it hard to determine who's being sexist, who's being racist,
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Speaker 2: who's being homophobic. I want to quickly change gear because
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about the fact that this is
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Speaker 2: the other big thing that is getting ready to happen,
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Speaker 2: is we're going to have another a new president sworn in,
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Speaker 2: an old new president sworn in. And that is this
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Speaker 2: report that has come out that says that Joe Biden
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Speaker 2: has not been fully able to run the country for
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Speaker 2: three years. Now. This is the report, and you know
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Speaker 2: three so that means one year in office of being
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Speaker 2: you know, having his cognition and being able to do things.
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Speaker 2: So this is now. I don't think this really comes
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Speaker 2: as a huge surprise. I think it's interesting that people
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Speaker 2: are starting to discuss when it happened. And I do
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Speaker 2: think if I were a member of the Democrat Party
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Speaker 2: and I were wanting to keep the presidency, as you
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Speaker 2: would think they would want to, I would assume that
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Speaker 2: they made a huge mistake at least two years ago
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Speaker 2: by not starting to put the procedures in place to
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Speaker 2: force him to step down. Start saying, look, this guy
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Speaker 2: can't run the country. It's time to hand the presidency
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Speaker 2: over to Kamala Harris and then put her in a
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Speaker 2: position where she would have had two years in office
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Speaker 2: and then the opportunity then to you know, potentially run
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Speaker 2: as the incumbent president and still have the opportunity to run,
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Speaker 2: you know, because ten years, right, two terms or ten years,
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Speaker 2: she could have served out two years of his presidency
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Speaker 2: and then taken over on her own if she'd won.
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Speaker 2: I don't think that she could have still won. I
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Speaker 2: think we would have had a very I think we
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Speaker 2: would have had two years to have her fully exposed.
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Speaker 2: And I think that they thought they were in better
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Speaker 2: control of who was going to be on the ticket
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Speaker 2: on both sides. I haven't been shy about this, and
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Speaker 2: I still maintain that. I truly believe that the people
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Speaker 2: that maybe have been running the country for the last
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Speaker 2: three years were fully under the impression that not only
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Speaker 2: were they going to get Trump taken off the ballot
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Speaker 2: and incapable of being president, but that they were also
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Speaker 2: going to be able to sort of force Republicans into
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Speaker 2: who they felt like they were going to pick. They'd
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Speaker 2: already started attacking Ron DeSantis, so they felt like, well,
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Speaker 2: if it's going to be him, we're going to have
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Speaker 2: to go for a younger guy ourselves. And they were
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Speaker 2: going to turn to California and turn to Gavin Newsom,
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Speaker 2: And I truly believe that's the way they thought this
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Speaker 2: was all going to play out, that they were going
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Speaker 2: to be able to somehow get Biden a step down
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Speaker 2: and hand things over to Gavin Newsom, who had, by
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Speaker 2: the way, already been you know, in the first year
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Speaker 2: Biden was in office. If he left the country, Knewsome
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Speaker 2: went and took some photos of him strolling around inside
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Speaker 2: the White House and I guess sitting at the desk
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Speaker 2: and trying to look presidential. They had all that ready.
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Speaker 2: They were ready to go with the whole advertising campaign.
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Speaker 2: They knew what they wanted to do, and it didn't
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Speaker 2: play out for him. So they got to be kicking
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Speaker 2: themselves to know now that their strategy didn't work, and
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Speaker 2: that maybe, just maybe if they had called it what
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Speaker 2: it was, a president who was not really running the country,
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Speaker 2: then maybe they could have put her in a position where,
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Speaker 2: you know, Harris maybe had the opportunity to run a
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Speaker 2: better campaign or be completely exposed. And I suspect that
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Speaker 2: the latter is probably the case. So we got to
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Speaker 2: go back to the obvious question now, and that's well,
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Speaker 2: who are these people that have been running the country
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Speaker 2: for three years? Who are they? I mean, we know
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Speaker 2: who some of them are. I guess. I mean anybody
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Speaker 2: that was capable of pushing a sitting president who was
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Speaker 2: running for reelection out the door. We've also heard reports
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Speaker 2: that Jill Biden has been running some of the cabinet meetings.
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Speaker 2: I guess more so, you know, lately so. But you know,
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Speaker 2: the president's been on vacation forty percent of his time
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Speaker 2: in office. We've heard that stat That doesn't come as
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Speaker 2: a shock. Every time we see him somewhere. He's at
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Speaker 2: the beach, he's you know, riding a bike, he's crashing
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Speaker 2: a bike, he's eating ice cream, he's eating more and
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Speaker 2: it's a tough job. I don't fault them for having
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Speaker 2: vacation days. I don't. But the country wasn't in a
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Speaker 2: good place. It hasn't been feels like we got some optimism.
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Speaker 2: It does, but the country hasn't been great. So there
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Speaker 2: hasn't really been a place to just say, hey, we're
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Speaker 2: going to leave it an autopilot. There were members of
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Speaker 2: the cabinet that they didn't know where they were. They
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Speaker 2: disappeared for long periods of time. There were members of
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Speaker 2: the cabinet who weren't showing up for work when there
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Speaker 2: were train crashes and things in Ohio. I mean, we
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Speaker 2: had serious stuff going on planes, number of issues with airplanes, right,
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Speaker 2: and you know, oh, we're on the paternity leave, we're out,
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Speaker 2: we're not here, we're not showing up for work, or
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Speaker 2: we have health problems or you know, whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: So that's not a good indication of a successful presidency.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think anybody is looking at these
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Speaker 2: four years and saying, man, this has been a successful run.
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Speaker 2: Some are trying, of course, to paint it and say, hey,
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Speaker 2: he did a great job getting us out of COVID.
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Speaker 2: The same guy who, by the way, said that if
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Speaker 2: you know Trump had allowed as many people to die
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Speaker 2: on his watch of COVID as he did, he shouldn't
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Speaker 2: be allowed to be president. And then more people died
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Speaker 2: during the Biden administration. One of those statements that you know,
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Speaker 2: there's a record of it, they pretend like he didn't
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Speaker 2: say it, and they pretend, you know, they move on.
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Speaker 2: It's just old Joe doing his thing, but he did,
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Speaker 2: he said it, and certainly I don't know. Maybe ultimately
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Speaker 2: that's what pushed him over the edge for him to
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Speaker 2: drop out of the race. I don't know. So for
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Speaker 2: three years, who's been running things behind the scenes other
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Speaker 2: than Jill Biden, who's been doing it? I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know who else has been there. People say
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Speaker 2: Obama's been running things. I don't know if that's really
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Speaker 2: the case. I think he certainly probably enjoys more power
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Speaker 2: and authority out of the White House than he had
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Speaker 2: when he was in there, because I don't know that
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Speaker 2: he was running things. I don't think many presidents do.
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Speaker 2: But we do know the one coming January twentieth is
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Speaker 2: one of those presidents who runs things. That's why they
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Speaker 2: now that we're on the other side of you know,
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Speaker 2: January first and into the new year, we're at this
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Speaker 2: this phase. Yesterday was officially the day for January fifth,
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Speaker 2: uh and it's it's called Dating Sunday, and it's the
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Speaker 2: busiest day of the year. On dating apps. Were you
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Speaker 2: But it's the busiest day of the year for dating
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Speaker 2: apps yesterday. Tender reporting that swipes twenty percent higher, likes,
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Speaker 2: fifteen percent higher, ten percent more matches, twenty percent more
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Speaker 2: messages sent January fifth every year compared to the rest
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Speaker 2: of the year. And it's basically because it's a new year.
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Speaker 2: People are excited about new possibilities, maybe some new resolutions,
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Speaker 2: all those sorts of things. I would think also, Valentine's
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Speaker 2: Day is kind of coming up fast. All that stuff's
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Speaker 2: already in the stores. They've cleared out the Christmas stuff,
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Speaker 2: they've moved in all the red and pink stuff. It's everywhere,
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Speaker 2: So that could be part of it as well. I
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Speaker 2: don't know, but a lot of people apparently are on
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Speaker 2: the market right now. So we talked about cuffing before
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Speaker 2: the holidays, as couples were trying to, you know, maybe
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Speaker 2: have someone for the holidays that they could take to
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Speaker 2: family gatherings and things. Well, apparently uncuffing also happens in January. Now.
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Speaker 2: I hope this is a coincidence that these that the
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Speaker 2: the dating Sunday thing, and divorce month is apparently what
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Speaker 2: divorce lawyers call January. Couples maybe didn't want to get
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Speaker 2: divorced or split up or uncuffed if you will, before
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Speaker 2: the holidays, especially ones that have kids, so they make
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Speaker 2: it through the holidays and then they call it quits
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Speaker 2: come January, so we're in divorce month. I guess you
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Speaker 2: got to survive until February. I don't know. I suspect
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Speaker 2: if that's your mindset and mentality, the relationships probably already
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Speaker 2: in trouble. When it comes to New Year's resolutions, people
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Speaker 2: have money on their minds. According to wallet Hubs' latest survey,
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Speaker 2: twenty three percent of respondent said saving more money was
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Speaker 2: their resolution for the year, making it the top resolution
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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five. Also achieving personal happiness, exercising more,
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Speaker 2: improving physical health, and eating healthier. See some of those
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Speaker 2: all die together. Exercising, improving physical health, and eating healthier,
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Speaker 2: they're kind of all related, What don't you think? Jolt Cola,
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Speaker 2: the cola drink that delivered twice the caffeine as the
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Speaker 2: other soft drinks did during their runback in the eighties,
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Speaker 2: is back promising to ramp up the buzz even further.
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Speaker 2: The company behind the super Amped beverage went bankrupt in
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Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, wants to send users into orbit
24:42
Speaker 2: with a new formula that boasts nearly three times the
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Speaker 2: caffeine of its previous version, jumping from seventy one milligrams
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Speaker 2: to two hundred milligrams per serving by comparison coke and
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Speaker 2: PEPSI thirty to forty milligrams of caffeine per serving. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean, if people are drinking it, they'll be bouncing
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Speaker 2: off the walls. I mean they'll be bouncing off I
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Speaker 2: remember someone telling me in my very early days of
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Speaker 2: radio doing overnights, get you a little caffeine pill and
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Speaker 2: drink it with a coke and then I'll help you
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Speaker 2: stay up at night. And I was jittery all night.
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Speaker 2: I hate to I wish I had the air check
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Speaker 2: of that show. I was probably talking really fast, and uh,
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Speaker 2: you know the time, maybe did like the whole six
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Speaker 2: hour air shift in an hour. I mean it was
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Speaker 2: just you know, just pulling the pulling the CDs out
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Speaker 2: before they even finished. I don't know if you've been
25:41
Speaker 2: struggling to deal with the fact that gen Z is
25:45
Speaker 2: getting pushed out of the way by Gen Alpha. Well
25:47
Speaker 2: guess what Jen beta is here. The new generation just
25:53
Speaker 2: started with babies born since New Year's Day, since Gen
25:56
Speaker 2: Alpha just ended its fourteen year run. Experts say Beta's
26:00
Speaker 2: are expected to make up sixteen percent of the global
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Speaker 2: population by twenty thirty five, and many are likely to
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Speaker 2: see the dawn of the twenty second century if we
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Speaker 2: make it that far. While Generation Alpha, of course we will.
26:15
Speaker 2: While Generation Alpha has seen the rise of smart technology
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Speaker 2: and AI, Jen Beta will apparently live in a time
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Speaker 2: when AI and automation are fully embedded in all aspects
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Speaker 2: of everyday life. That's what the experts say. We got
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Speaker 2: to be careful. You got to be careful. You can't
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Speaker 2: just let the AI take everything over, because that would
26:36
Speaker 2: not be good. We know that that's not good because
26:39
Speaker 2: we have science fiction movies. An increasing number of women
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Speaker 2: are planning solo vacations this year, and the travel industry
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Speaker 2: is getting ready for it with special packages tailored specifically
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Speaker 2: to them. According to a new survey from market research
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Speaker 2: firm Future Partners, forty percent of female travelers said they're
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Speaker 2: interested in traveling solo this year, citing a number of factors,
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Speaker 2: including desire for personal growth, adventure, the flexibility to create
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Speaker 2: uniquely personal itineraries. Many destinations and travel agents are getting
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Speaker 2: right in on the growing trend by offering special vacation
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Speaker 2: packages that appeal to single and solo women. Good thinking
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Speaker 2: on their part. I wonder if this trend created this need,
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Speaker 2: or did this need create the trend. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: You just wonder if these travel agencies are going, hey,
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Speaker 2: these women are going to travel solo this year, and
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Speaker 2: then women went, yeah, we are, Yeah, of course we are.
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Speaker 2: Or did women say solo travel, that's me and then
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Speaker 2: they just said, ah, let's get on top of that.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know which it was, but
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Speaker 2: good for them, good for everybody involved. I guess that'll
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