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Trump Is Already Busy · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, fourth day of December. I'm West Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. Just plowing our way through the month of December.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, less than three weeks right at
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Speaker 2: three weeks to Christmas. I guess less than three weeks
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Speaker 2: to Christmas Eve. Just zipping along, zipping right along. Give
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Speaker 2: yourself whiplash, it's going so fast. One of the great
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Speaker 2: Christmas traditions in the Chattahoochee Valley area is the Nutcracker Ballet,
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Speaker 2: presented by the Columbus Ballet at the River Center. Tickets
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Speaker 2: available for this weekend shows. Final days we're in the
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Speaker 2: river Center. I mean not at the moment.
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Speaker 1: I'm not.
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Speaker 2: I was last night as we've begun our rehearsals on
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Speaker 2: stage in the river Center. Like I said, it's something
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Speaker 2: special about just being on the stage for the rehearsal
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Speaker 2: parts of the show. That's when you really know your space.
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Speaker 2: You've ever performed any sort of theater, that's when you
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Speaker 2: know your space that you're working with. My sixth time
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Speaker 2: in the role of Mother Ginger in the show so
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Speaker 2: I know the space, I know the stage, but it's
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Speaker 2: just good to get back in there. I've got a
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Speaker 2: new group of girls that are working with me this
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Speaker 2: year as my Poulis Chanelle's first time for all of
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Speaker 2: these girls. Last two years, uh well I had the
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Speaker 2: same I had one of the same girls both years.
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Speaker 2: And there's something just extra reassuring when you're on stage
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Speaker 2: in the stilts, in the dress, the girls are in there.
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Speaker 2: There's just something a little reassuring about knowing you've got
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Speaker 2: one veteran in there. She was the captain of the
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Speaker 2: Polly's last year. It's it's an important role for me
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Speaker 2: as far as reassurance goes. People always ask, like, what's
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Speaker 2: going on under there? It's it's in this case this year,
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Speaker 2: we have eight kids in there. It's seven girls, one boy,
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Speaker 2: and as we come out on stage, they're they're not
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Speaker 2: in a duck walk. They can't walk fast enough in
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Speaker 2: a duck walk. They don't have to get that low,
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Speaker 2: but they have to crouch down and they have to
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Speaker 2: walk out with me keep my tempo. So it's it's
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Speaker 2: very much an orchestrated process for us to get out
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Speaker 2: to our mark on stage and then they come out
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Speaker 2: in pairs, they dance. We all dance on stage in
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Speaker 2: some form I like to call what I do dancing.
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Speaker 2: It's called divertisement ballet. And then they come back into
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Speaker 2: the dress and then we exit the stage. That's that's
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Speaker 2: the process. But there's a little I can't hear them.
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Speaker 2: They can't hear me once they go in. Even when
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Speaker 2: we're on stage right as we're you know, in the
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Speaker 2: wings waiting to go out, there's zero I can speak
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Speaker 2: to them as they go in, very softly because we're
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Speaker 2: on stage, but we can't communicate inside. We've got little
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Speaker 2: things that we've learned to do that we use to communicate.
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Speaker 2: Can't give away all the trade secrets, but we have
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Speaker 2: little ways that we can communicate while we're in there.
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Speaker 2: And that's you know, it's it's like sign stealing, you know,
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Speaker 2: can't give away all my secrets. But anyway, so and
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Speaker 2: the captain is part of the communicator. That's the role.
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Speaker 2: This year, I have a different captain. She's done great,
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Speaker 2: she's done very very well. Sore where it's but it's
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Speaker 2: eight brand new kids in there that we're gonna, we're gonna,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna dazzle you on stage. That's what we're gonna do.
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Speaker 2: Our first show is is Friday morning, and that will
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Speaker 2: be school show that we're putting on for area school
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Speaker 2: kids that are gonna come in and watch the show.
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Speaker 2: And then Saturday evening and Sunday matinee or the tickets
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Speaker 2: that you can purchase. Your kids may be coming to
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Speaker 2: the kid shows, the school shows, but tickets available for
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Speaker 2: the Saturday and Sunday show while they last. Rivercenter dot org,
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Speaker 2: river Center box Office, the Columbus Ballet dot org. If
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Speaker 2: you want to go that route, you can get your tickets,
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Speaker 2: don't go through a broker. And we're looking forward to
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Speaker 2: putting on a great show. It's always a great time.
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Speaker 2: And I'm just telling you I many of the so
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Speaker 2: when I started this six years ago, many of the
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Speaker 2: kids that were Polly's then have now over the six
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Speaker 2: years become you know, the the spotlight dancers, if you will,
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Speaker 2: And that's really cool. It's really cool to watch them
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Speaker 2: that they're now the you know, because back then, you know,
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Speaker 2: that was six years ago. Those those dancers in many
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Speaker 2: cases have moved on to other things. Maybe they're still dancing,
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Speaker 2: maybe they're teaching dancing, whatever it is. And here I
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Speaker 2: am with a brand new group that in six years
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Speaker 2: maybe the we'll be the ones that are part of
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Speaker 2: the part of the show in six years in some
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Speaker 2: of the spotlight roles. So excited to be back, excited
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Speaker 2: to do it. I hope you'll join us for the
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Speaker 2: Columbus Valley. All right, for the Nutcracker with the Columbus Valley.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about I know we've been talking about this,
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Speaker 2: pardon this has been the big story for a few days,
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Speaker 2: and I know there's a few other things that we
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Speaker 2: can we can talk about, I mean, quickly, we can
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Speaker 2: talk about the fact that former President Trump has had
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Speaker 2: a very busy schedule of late. He wins the presidency again,
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Speaker 2: he'll be sworn in in January, but he's already crazy busy.
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Speaker 2: I mean, his schedule is packed. And it's interesting when
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Speaker 2: you think about the number of things that he has
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Speaker 2: done since being re elected and he's not I mean,
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Speaker 2: everyone knows he'll be sworn in, he'll have the job again,
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Speaker 2: but he's not officially in the role, and he's done
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Speaker 2: more just like in the last week, meetings and phone conversations, threats.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's been threats to other countries. Hey, you're
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Speaker 2: going to have to do some You have to help
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Speaker 2: us fix some problems, starting with the border. You're gonna
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Speaker 2: have to help us fix it. He's met with Canadian
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kind of threw a little Hey,
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Speaker 2: if you guys can't function without ripping us off, maybe
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Speaker 2: we should just make you the fifty first state. It's
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Speaker 2: an awkward exchange, but that's Trump being Trump. That's Trump
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Speaker 2: showing a picture to the head of a terrorist group
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Speaker 2: and going, hey, this picture of your house. Knock it off.
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Speaker 2: We know where you live, Like we could do this
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Speaker 2: right now. Who's home, Like, you know, your is, your family,
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Speaker 2: there's the dog there, who's who's there at the moment.
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Speaker 2: We know where you we know where you're going to be.
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Speaker 2: Knock it off. That's kind of what he was saying
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Speaker 2: to Justin Trudeau. It's interesting how things have changed drastically
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Speaker 2: as we now have, uh, just a whole different regime,
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Speaker 2: a whole different and hasn't been a lot out of
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Speaker 2: the White House. I mean really the last year, most
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Speaker 2: of what's going on in the White House has been
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Speaker 2: some form of running for re election, which is to
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Speaker 2: be understood the moment that the people behind the scenes
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Speaker 2: that are really pulling the strings decided to push the
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Speaker 2: president out of the race, and then the vice president
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Speaker 2: stepped up. Right as that happened, It's when things kind
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Speaker 2: of went went quiet in the White House, right. It
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Speaker 2: wasn't a whole lot going on. Stories of the first
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Speaker 2: first lady running the cabinet meetings. We've heard that from
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Speaker 2: a few places, that she sort of stepped in. Not
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Speaker 2: something she was elected to do by anyone, but that's
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Speaker 2: kind of how they do business. Apparently, Hillary Clinton famously
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Speaker 2: said we're the president when Bill was president, So you know,
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Speaker 2: if that's how you see it, I don't think we're
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Speaker 2: going to see any of that now. I don't. I
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Speaker 2: don't think Trump's letting anybody from his family run cabinet meetings.
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Speaker 2: People that weren't elected to run the cabinet meetings. I
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Speaker 2: don't think that's happening. But I suppose if the president,
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Speaker 2: if President Biden officially appointed his wife to run cabinet meetings.
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Speaker 2: It's just it's a weird. It's a weird thing. It's
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Speaker 2: a weird thing that we do where just and I
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Speaker 2: just I don't understand. I don't want to go too
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Speaker 2: far down this hole, but it's it's weird that we
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Speaker 2: have a party in this country, in our two party system,
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Speaker 2: that just the first ladies are, you know, hey, maybe
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Speaker 2: they'll run for president. One of them did. One of
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Speaker 2: them was in it. She got down to the final two.
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Speaker 2: She made it to the final, right, not even the semifinals.
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Speaker 2: She made it to the finals and she lost. And
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Speaker 2: then it's been O on the show Obama, and now
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Speaker 2: we got Joe Biden who's running cabinet meetings. It's a
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Speaker 2: weird thing. That's not I mean, has that happened on
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Speaker 2: the right. I'm not familiar with it happening. I don't
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Speaker 2: remember everybody saying Barbara Bush and run for president. I
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Speaker 2: don't remember hearing that. I mean, no, Nancy Reagan. They
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Speaker 2: weren't cries and screams for Nancy Reagan to run for president.
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Speaker 2: It's just kind of weird. It's a weird thing. I
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Speaker 2: think that happens, and I don't really understand, you know,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't. I mean, I'm not discounting
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Speaker 2: the role of a first lady. It's been a more
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Speaker 2: true additional role for Republicans then for the left, and
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Speaker 2: they just there's just no bench, I guess, and they
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Speaker 2: just go, well, we're just gonna let's see if we
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Speaker 2: can get you know, Michelle Obama to run. Let's see
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Speaker 2: if we you know, those kind of thing. I don't understand.
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Speaker 2: I don't get that anyway. Even when they don't want it,
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Speaker 2: even when they don't want to run and they don't
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Speaker 2: want to be president, people try to push them into it.
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Speaker 2: It's all about pushing pushing people out of races, pushing
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Speaker 2: people into races, trying to push people in. Where's Oprah?
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Speaker 2: You know those kind of conversations, where's the rock when
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Speaker 2: we need him? Anyway? All right, going back to the
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Speaker 2: pardon thing, I think we all understand why the pardon happened.
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Speaker 2: I think we all understand there's some corrupt family dealings
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Speaker 2: with the Bidens that go back to when Joe was
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Speaker 2: vice president. I think we know all that's going on,
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Speaker 2: and we've talked about that the last couple of days.
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Speaker 2: I just there's a couple of things that I feel
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Speaker 2: like are worth addressing otherwise, and it ties a little
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Speaker 2: bit into what we talked about yesterday with the folks
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Speaker 2: on the left that are saying it's not a lie.
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Speaker 2: He did the right thing. It was unfair this ability
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Speaker 2: that we have to justify the actions of someone just
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Speaker 2: because you know, the letter next to their name a
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Speaker 2: D or an R or whatever it is. We just
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Speaker 2: will justify just about anything. Both sides are guilty of this, Okay.
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Speaker 2: I would make the case that if we were just
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Speaker 2: starting fresh with Trump and didn't know the kind of
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Speaker 2: president he would be, and we were starting fresh all over,
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Speaker 2: we would have I think some people wouldn't be quite
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Speaker 2: as die hard and dedicated as they are with him.
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Speaker 2: You know, he came into this really just you know,
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Speaker 2: people sort of like they knew him from fame, but
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Speaker 2: they didn't really know him the way we all feel
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Speaker 2: like we do now. And I think it would have
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Speaker 2: been harder prior to him being an effective leader for
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Speaker 2: some of the things that we know to be kind
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Speaker 2: of looked the other way. I think if Trump were
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Speaker 2: running as had run as a Democrat, and once upon
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Speaker 2: a time I guess he identified as a Democrat, I
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Speaker 2: think the left would have loved all the things that
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Speaker 2: he was doing and wouldn't have cared about the bad
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Speaker 2: stuff or bad things that he said, and the right
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Speaker 2: would have been like can you believe some of the
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Speaker 2: things that he said? And it's just the way we
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Speaker 2: do things. But Trump has been an effective conservative, I
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Speaker 2: would argue, more moderate conservative. He's not a staunch hard
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Speaker 2: right guy. I know people want to label him that
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Speaker 2: this crazy alt right a guy, but that's not really
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Speaker 2: who he is. He's right of center. I do think
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Speaker 2: he considers things from folks on the left, as evidenced
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Speaker 2: by RFK Junior and Tulsea Gabbard now being part of
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Speaker 2: his team. So I think when we look at Democrats
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Speaker 2: right now and how much effort they put into law
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Speaker 2: and order with the getting Trump out of the race strategy,
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Speaker 2: it's all about law and order. Law we gotta you know,
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Speaker 2: no one is above the law. And there were politicians,
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Speaker 2: there were strategists, there were TV hosts and pundits, and
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Speaker 2: they went on and on and on about law and
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Speaker 2: order and about no one being above the law. Not
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Speaker 2: even the former president is above the law. No one
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Speaker 2: is above the law. And that was such a major
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Speaker 2: campaign strategy for the left. Democrats really hung everything on that.
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Speaker 2: That was what they wanted to they this is this
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Speaker 2: is gonna be ur this is what's gonna get us,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna win on this as a strategy, that's what
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Speaker 2: they thought. They thought, Oh, we're gonna get him. It'll
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Speaker 2: be felony charges and a conviction. That's it, law and order.
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Speaker 2: No one's gonna want to vote for a criminal. And
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Speaker 2: then now it's he's he's won. It made a lot
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Speaker 2: of people identify with him in a way that people
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Speaker 2: just couldn't comprehend. How do they identify with this guy?
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Speaker 2: But they do. I think everybody has had a point
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Speaker 2: in their life where maybe they feel like they were
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Speaker 2: unfairly targeted for something, even if it's just you know,
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Speaker 2: you're a teenager, you're walking around in the store, they're
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Speaker 2: eyeing you're kind of funny, maybe you're dressed in a way.
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Speaker 2: People saying, I don't understand how now Black America voted
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Speaker 2: for Trump? Hispanic America. You think they can't relate to
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Speaker 2: that story. I mean I can relate to it, and
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Speaker 2: I'm not black or Hispanic. I can relate to being
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Speaker 2: looked at funny in a store when I was younger.
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people understand about being targeted.
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people feel like, hey, I
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Speaker 2: didn't get this job because of this reason or that reason,
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Speaker 2: or you know, wrong gender, even though that's not supposed
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Speaker 2: to be a factor, it is. It is. I've lost
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Speaker 2: out on jobs because I was a man, right, it happened.
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Speaker 2: I've lost that on jobs because I'm a white man.
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Speaker 2: It's happened to me. I was told it to my face,
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Speaker 2: and it's how you just sometimes you just have to
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Speaker 2: take it. Sorry. But in broadcasting, that's a reality, right,
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Speaker 2: that's a reality. Sometimes in broadcasting they're looking for somebody
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Speaker 2: who can run a hip hop station. That's what they're
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Speaker 2: looking for. I don't look like a guy who can
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Speaker 2: run a hip hop's. So that's just the way it goes. Sometimes.
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Speaker 2: I think people can relate. I think they understand. So
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Speaker 2: if your whole strategy on the left is law and order,
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Speaker 2: and we're gonna really pat where this is it, we're
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Speaker 2: letting all sorts of chaos happen in the streets from
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Speaker 2: people coming up across the border. We're letting it just
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Speaker 2: get wild and out of hand, violence and people are
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Speaker 2: being arrested and released and all these murders, rapes. But
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Speaker 2: this is where we're gonna hang everything on this case,
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Speaker 2: law and order. And they ask Biden are you gonna
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Speaker 2: pardon your son. No, I'm not gonna pardon my son.
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Speaker 2: Law and order, you know, no one's above the law.
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Speaker 2: And then he loses, his vice president loses and pardon him.
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Speaker 2: Got to pardon him, got to pardon him back to
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Speaker 2: when maybe he could get in trouble for some of
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Speaker 2: the stuff we were doing when I was vice president.
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Speaker 2: We got to make sure it's that long, it goes
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Speaker 2: that far back, That's what we got to make sure of.
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Speaker 2: Can't have any of that stuff getting dug into. It
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Speaker 2: would be fruitless to dig into that fruitless And like
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Speaker 2: I told you, you know, if they want to go
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Speaker 2: back and dig around into Biden back, then then it's
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Speaker 2: we're playing this game that just happened with Trump. Now.
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Speaker 2: Granted Biden ay running again, He's not going to be
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Speaker 2: the candidate again. He's done. His presidency will finish next month,
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Speaker 2: it'll be over. That'll be the end of it. So
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Speaker 2: it's not like a Trump Justice Department going after him
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Speaker 2: would be for political reasons. But again, if we're going
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Speaker 2: to reset things and go back to a time when
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Speaker 2: you don't politically go after former presidents, then it would
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Speaker 2: be probably in all of our best interests to move
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Speaker 2: on right, But you gotta wonder, are they afraid do
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Speaker 2: they think, oh, did they get word that Trump might
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Speaker 2: come after him and go back and dig around in
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Speaker 2: those things? I mean, I think they should probably be
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Speaker 2: looked into. I think the American people deserve to know
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Speaker 2: what we kind of think probably happened. We all have
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Speaker 2: a pretty good idea, well some of us have a
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Speaker 2: pretty good idea, but overall, think of the chaos in
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Speaker 2: the break, all right, we told you the finalists for
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Speaker 2: the Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year. I kind
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Speaker 2: of thought maybe it was gonna be demure. That was
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Speaker 2: the word. I told you that I had a feeling
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Speaker 2: it could probably be the word. However it was not.
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Speaker 2: Instead it was brain rot, which is actually two words.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how that works exactly, but it's two words,
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Speaker 2: and it's brain rot. The Oxford Press chose it because
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Speaker 2: it saw how increased popularity among gen z and jen
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Speaker 2: Alpha on social media it had spiked, so they defined
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Speaker 2: brain rot as the supposed deterioration of a person's mental
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Speaker 2: or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of over
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Speaker 2: consumption of material now partially online content considered to be
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Speaker 2: trivial or unchallenging. Say, it's also something characterized by a
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Speaker 2: that it's something that's likely to lead to such deterioration.
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Speaker 2: So beat out dynamic pricing, lore, romancy, romanticy. Sorry I
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Speaker 2: left off. That's a little slop. And demure, which I
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Speaker 2: guess demure had been named dictionary dot COM's word of
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Speaker 2: the year. So demure and brain rod. A lot of
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Speaker 2: people think the use of the word demure on social
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Speaker 2: media was actually brain rod. All right, we're past Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 2: You probably have a Christmas tree in your house. If
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Speaker 2: you don't, you're probably getting one soon, if you're going
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Speaker 2: to get one at all. And a lot of people
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Speaker 2: trying to figure out real tree artificial tree. I know,
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Speaker 2: some people are committed to one or the other. Some
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Speaker 2: people make the decision, you know, as they go and
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Speaker 2: maybe I've had real trees and suddenly they decide, well,
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Speaker 2: maybe I need to think about an artificial one. According
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Speaker 2: to a new survey done by Real Christmas Tree Board,
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Speaker 2: eighty five percent of Americans say that a real tree
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Speaker 2: makes their home more festive and adds to their holiday season.
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Speaker 2: Eighty three percent said they feel like the smell of
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Speaker 2: a tree helps them relax. The survey also finds twenty
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Speaker 2: five percent of Americans are planning to buy a real
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Speaker 2: tree this year for the first time, and it seems
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Speaker 2: once you go real, you rarely go back. Ninety percent
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Speaker 2: of those who switched to a real tree for Christmas
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Speaker 2: last year said they were happy about it. Ninety seven
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Speaker 2: percent of those who went real last year say they
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Speaker 2: want their kids to continue to experience the joy of
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Speaker 2: a real tree. Fun fact about me, unless as a toddler,
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Speaker 2: if we ever had a real tree, maybe I would
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Speaker 2: have been very young. I have a vague memory of it,
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Speaker 2: but I don't know if that's one of those memories
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Speaker 2: I've just planted into my head. But all of my
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Speaker 2: memories involve artificial trees. We've had nothing but artificial tree
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Speaker 2: since Jill moved here. We actually have two of them
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Speaker 2: up this year. We've done that for a couple of
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Speaker 2: years now, and we made the investment into an artificial tree.
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Speaker 2: So we're very much a get our money's worth, at
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Speaker 2: least I am. Maybe I can just pass it off
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Speaker 2: on me, but I think Jill appreciates getting our money's
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Speaker 2: worth and Our second tree that we're now using is
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Speaker 2: actually on our screened in porch, our deck that's screened in,
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Speaker 2: and that's one of our older trees, the first tree
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Speaker 2: that we had when she moved here. So we're still
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Speaker 2: getting our money's worth out of that tree. Trendy tree decorations,
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Speaker 2: no matter what kind of tree you get. The top
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Speaker 2: five Christmas decorating trends this year ribbons and bows. Apparently
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Speaker 2: they're calling it the Year of the bow. Non traditional colors.
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Speaker 2: They say, reds and greens out blues and pinks. And
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Speaker 2: I thought that had kind of been the case for
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Speaker 2: a little while, at least that's what somebody told me
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Speaker 2: like five years ago. Hand Crafted paper decorations decorators say,
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Speaker 2: go ahead and make paper chain garlands and handcut snowflakes,
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Speaker 2: vintage ornaments also can help little nostalgia to go with it.
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Speaker 2: And multiple trees. Who knew and the Carol House was
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Speaker 2: being trendy. Look at that multiple trees. They say, put
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Speaker 2: a small tree in every room of the house. Now
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Speaker 2: that's getting a bit much. I mean that sounds like
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Speaker 2: it's the tree people, you know, the tree people are
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Speaker 2: trying to plant that, all right, Milk and cookies. Santa.
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Speaker 2: That's the thing, right, everybody knows you gotta get milk
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Speaker 2: and cookies. Right. How about this, though, maybe you could
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Speaker 2: consolidate and you don't have to have milk and cookies.
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Speaker 2: You can simply just have a glass of chocolate chip
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Speaker 2: cookie milk. Nesle's Nest Quick of course chocolate straw milk.
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Speaker 2: They're introducing the chocolate chip cookie milk for those who
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Speaker 2: like the combo and just you know, one on one shot.
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Speaker 2: The new Nest Quick drink will be available exclusive at
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Speaker 2: seven eleven. Come on, we don't have a seven eleven
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Speaker 2: around here. It's a long way to go to get
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Speaker 2: to a seven eleven for us. Maybe if it's popular enough,
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Speaker 2: they'll start selling in the stores. I'd like to try it.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure Santa wouldn't love it. That'll do it for
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