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Wicked Radio 11-25: Thanksgiving Travel Update, RIP Chuck Woolery, & Patriotic Heavy Metal? · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Late, but not to be denied. Hold on, I gonna
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  Speaker 1: take these headphones off Wicked radio late today and I
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  Speaker 1: am an absolute mess trying to figure out internet connections.
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  Speaker 1: But live on the road from the very lovely by
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  Speaker 1: the Way Homewood Suits. I think Marriott owns it. I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm not too sure. I didn't even book it.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, and lovely Orlando, Florida. Thanks for hanging out
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  Speaker 1: with me. And if you're listening to the replay later on,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, what it's on the normal time? I always listen. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry about it, no big deal. But here we are.
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  Speaker 1: I have to tell you, by the way, all of
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  Speaker 1: these and we talked about this on Friday, a lot,
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  Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday because at the time of the this
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  Speaker 1: is the time of the year, right before Thanksgiving where
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  Speaker 1: they come out with all the travel estimates. Triple A
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  Speaker 1: always comes out with this, and they always say that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have record number of people driving fifty
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  Speaker 1: miles or more on the road and a record number
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  Speaker 1: of people flying. They are not kidding. I just took
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  Speaker 1: a simple trip from my home in South Florida to Orlando,
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  Speaker 1: and this was just yesterday. It is now. This is
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  Speaker 1: a travel city. I get that. I totally understand. It
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely packed. Airports are packed. I had to drop
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  Speaker 1: off my daughter the other day of the airport over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend that was packed as well. So tells you
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  Speaker 1: two things. Sure, the economy still sucks, we all know that,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely right. But people aren't afraid to travel, and there's
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  Speaker 1: just a different vibe. I know it's all anecdotal. I
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  Speaker 1: can't pourt to any science to actually prove this. I
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  Speaker 1: totally understand that, and I get it. Can't you feel it.
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  Speaker 1: There's a difference in the air. There's something else going
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  Speaker 1: on this time of the year and this holiday coming
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  Speaker 1: around where people are just throwing caution to the wind.
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  Speaker 1: Yes last year was down a little bit for Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: holiday travel people are saying screw it. I believe you
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  Speaker 1: know what that means overall, And I was thinking about
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  Speaker 1: this on my long drive yesterday. What it means is
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  Speaker 1: the economy's going to rebound faster than I think what
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  Speaker 1: we thought was gonna happen yesterday, or at least, you know,
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  Speaker 1: before the election. I think anyway, because so much of
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  Speaker 1: this stuff is just psychological. People are psyched, they're ready
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  Speaker 1: to spend again. They're going, yeah, okay, right, yeah, inflation
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  Speaker 1: still sucks. Trump hasn't Trump hasn't got to work on
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  Speaker 1: that quite yet, but he's going to. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: what else. And by the way, thanks to find a
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  Speaker 1: Wicked Radio. And for you people who joined me late today,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being patient. Here was the issue. So the
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  Speaker 1: internet connection was fine, everything else was fine. My little
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  Speaker 1: on the road mixer is okay. And if you were
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  Speaker 1: with me in the beginning when I was testing this
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  Speaker 1: thing out and trying to decide and asking you guys
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  Speaker 1: if I was even going to do a live stream,
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  Speaker 1: I was. Actually when I was up north in New England.
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  Speaker 1: I actually tested it in the woods to see if
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  Speaker 1: I could broadcast from anywhere. That worked like a charm.
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  Speaker 1: That was great. Here i am in a beautiful hotel
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  Speaker 1: suite and I'm like, oh my god, the connections aren't working.
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  Speaker 1: This worked in the freaking woods. Why isn't it working now?
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  Speaker 1: But we're going. We might have less sound today, but
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  Speaker 1: we're going. We cannot be stopped. I gotta tell you
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  Speaker 1: what else. The reason why I'm on the road was
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  Speaker 1: I'm a kid of the eighties, Like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: you are. So when I found out that one of
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  Speaker 1: the metal bands that I've always loved was at least
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  Speaker 1: coming to my state, not my hometown, but my state,
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  Speaker 1: I had to get there. I would love to see
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  Speaker 1: in the comments. I would love to see this. This
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  Speaker 1: would be this would be like the greatest greatest demographic
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  Speaker 1: test of all time. How many of you you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to tell me you're a fan, but how many
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  Speaker 1: of you remember the band Wasp. I know you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: pig me for a metal guy, but totally am, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: totally am Blackie Lawless, Wasp, Blind in Texas, wild Child,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Come on, if you were fans, if
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  Speaker 1: you at least know the band, let me know. So No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just not talking to the wall here, Okay. So
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  Speaker 1: they came to Orlando and it was They're playing their
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  Speaker 1: first album live from start to finish and then some
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  Speaker 1: extras at the end. I said, I never got a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Of all the bands that I saw in the eighties,
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  Speaker 1: I never got a chance to see them, and I've
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  Speaker 1: always loved that band. So of course went to Plaza
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  Speaker 1: Live in Orlando and went to the show and it
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  Speaker 1: was packed and was It's interesting when you're my age two,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know, I'm in my fifties now,
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of you are. I know because I
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  Speaker 1: know you personally. So it's interesting to see what the
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  Speaker 1: crowds are all like. And this was something. And if
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  Speaker 1: you are a rock fan like I am, you look
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  Speaker 1: at the shows now of some of our favorite bands
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  Speaker 1: in the eighties and you go to see them live
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  Speaker 1: and you look around and you probably do the same
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  Speaker 1: thing too. My hope is always it's gonna be dudes
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  Speaker 1: like me. I get it. I hope they bring their wives.
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  Speaker 1: I hope so anyway, but I also always look for
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  Speaker 1: one thing. I always look to see if there's like
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  Speaker 1: younger kids in the audience, to see if rock is
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  Speaker 1: going to be saved, if like this music is going
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  Speaker 1: to go on. I will tell you this, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not for nothing. And it's a slow news week anyway.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of younger people into this band,
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  Speaker 1: showing up for the first time, like kids in their
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  Speaker 1: early twenties. Talked to a couple of them, you're a
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  Speaker 1: rock fan. That was a good sign. Now I get
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  Speaker 1: into that long winded story about the show I went
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  Speaker 1: to last night, living out my heavy middle nineteen eighties
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  Speaker 1: dreams for one specific reason. And this actually does kind
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  Speaker 1: of tie into cultural events. I will tell you this
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  Speaker 1: personally too. Completely randomly, randomly, in between songs, well Wasp
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  Speaker 1: was planning, there was a they do, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: the entire first album live, a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: break and then they come back and they do some
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  Speaker 1: other stuff that wasn't on their first album. Completely randomly. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the set, a Trump chant broke
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  Speaker 1: out at Plaza Live. A couple of thousand people. They're live,
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  Speaker 1: just just chanting Trump like it always happens in the rallies.
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  Speaker 1: What always happens when that happens, USA, USA. She started
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  Speaker 1: to freak out and I was like, it was something
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  Speaker 1: to behold. I don't know. You know, if you thought
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  Speaker 1: this election post election buzz was going to die down
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  Speaker 1: pretty soon for Trump, I don't think so. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why I bring that up too. And it goes into
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  Speaker 1: holiday travel. I think there's just a general there's just
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  Speaker 1: a general buzz in the era of people psyched about that.
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  Speaker 1: I think people are gonna spend more money do some
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  Speaker 1: different things, and that's a huge factor of it. We're
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  Speaker 1: all running for oh, right, the Department of Government Efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: We're all rooting for that to get things done, to
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  Speaker 1: cut out all the red or the red tape and
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  Speaker 1: all the waste and actually get rid of useless, bloated
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  Speaker 1: federal government employees. But the bigger factor of all of
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  Speaker 1: that is everybody else, not to encourage everybody to go
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  Speaker 1: into debt spending. But so much of this is psychological.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a different I don't know, if you've been
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  Speaker 1: out and if you're on the road now for Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: and you're you know, when you get back, it's true,
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  Speaker 1: you'll feel the difference in the way people feel about things.
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  Speaker 1: There's just a general there's just a general attitude and
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  Speaker 1: an optimism about what's happening in the country right now.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a cool thing to see, not with your
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  Speaker 1: far left relatives who will be at the Thanksgiving table
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  Speaker 1: possibly boy. And this has been another thing too, that
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  Speaker 1: is all over the place. You know, when you go
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  Speaker 1: on not so much on X because people are like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, don't tell me how to live on X.
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  Speaker 1: It's more of an independent kind of medium. But if
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  Speaker 1: you go on TikTok hopefully not, or on Instagram or
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  Speaker 1: God for Big God, forbid Facebook with Zuckerberg's whole outlet.
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  Speaker 1: There you see all this stuff and this is a
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  Speaker 1: This was the number one trending, number one trending topic
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  Speaker 1: on those social media outlets over the weekend. You're ready
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  Speaker 1: from both sides? What do I do about my relatives
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  Speaker 1: that want to make changes for Thanksgiving? We know we're
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  Speaker 1: getting together, but I've been told that I can't talk
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  Speaker 1: about certain things. Or from the lefty side, what do
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  Speaker 1: I do? I've been invited, we already, we already committed
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  Speaker 1: to go to my my trumper relatives. You know what
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  Speaker 1: do I do? Listen, this is the greatest advice that
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  Speaker 1: I've heard for this entire thing, and they heard it
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  Speaker 1: from a close personal friend of mine over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: You know what you do? Absolutely nothing. You go on
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  Speaker 1: and I'm talking about it. If you're like you know,
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  Speaker 1: common sense people like us. You go on with your
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  Speaker 1: plans as you normally would. And if you got some
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  Speaker 1: people that you think are going to complain or some
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  Speaker 1: lunatics that are coming to your house with Thanksgiving and
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  Speaker 1: they will be you know that's gonna happen. It's like
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  Speaker 1: with the rest of society. The bottom line is you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to really listen to those people. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to start a fight with them because you won.
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  Speaker 1: We said this last week too, you won, and you
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  Speaker 1: know you're right. You don't have to worry about them,
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  Speaker 1: humor them, move on, let them deal with that. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into some of the news here, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not happy, go lucky kind of news. And I always
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  Speaker 1: go to a trending kind of thing, and the way
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  Speaker 1: the tea leaves are kind of falling, I always go
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  Speaker 1: to the great Tucker Carlson. This disturbed me, for we're
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  Speaker 1: going on like three and a half days for now.
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  Speaker 1: Every since he talked about this, we'll lighten it up
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  Speaker 1: after this, I know about just to cover it up
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  Speaker 1: because we've been thinking about it. Right, I guess the
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  Speaker 1: polar opposite of that optimism in the country we're all
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  Speaker 1: talking about is this, What the hell is this lame
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  Speaker 1: duck administration not president because God knows where Joe is.
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  Speaker 1: He's not in control of anything. He did his big
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  Speaker 1: farewell speech did you catch that too? Where he said,
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  Speaker 1: even the nation better off than when I came. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: sure you are, Joe. Here's the sad thing. He actually
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  Speaker 1: believes that he really does. He truly believes that he's
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  Speaker 1: been told it enough by his handlers, by his puppet
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  Speaker 1: master's in the administration. That chip, mister Pressy, you're doing
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  Speaker 1: a great job. The whole country is so much better.
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  Speaker 1: You're just doing fantastic. He's heard that enough, and it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a broken record, like the groove is
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  Speaker 1: in his head and he can't he can't get out
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  Speaker 1: of it. He believes it. That's one thing. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know where he is. Kamala is often a wind of
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  Speaker 1: box wine drunk somewhere in Colorado, on vacation somewhere. So
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  Speaker 1: the egghead lunatics that are actually running this country are
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  Speaker 1: getting as closer and closer to a very dangerous situation,
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  Speaker 1: which is why I lead to the Tucker Carlson post
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of days ago. Here's what he said,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll say it almost verbaed him because it's number one.
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  Speaker 1: It's scary. But he lays out the situation perfectly, as
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  Speaker 1: Tucker always does. A lame duck president had just started
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  Speaker 1: a hot war with the wor world's most dangerous country. Well,
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: there's a starting, boy, if you want to learn how
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: to get somebody's attention on X. That's that's how you're
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  Speaker 1: right it. All of us are very close to being killed. Well,
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  Speaker 1: yet somehow the Republicans Speaker of the House hasn't even
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  Speaker 1: mentioned it in public or in leadership meetings. What is
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  Speaker 1: going on again? That's from Tucker Carlson, and he's right
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  Speaker 1: about that. And this kind of goes into you know,
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  Speaker 1: as optimistic as we are about all the great things
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  Speaker 1: that are coming for now, what put Trump's clip at
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  Speaker 1: like all the nominees so far, maybe like if it
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  Speaker 1: was like a batting average, you know, he's hitting like
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  Speaker 1: three point fifty three seventy five pretty good. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's on a role, not all of them, but most
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  Speaker 1: of them. We were all talked about the Matt Gates play,
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  Speaker 1: which I think was a which I think was a
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  Speaker 1: rope a dope move to try to get in Pam Bondi,
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  Speaker 1: who he really wants in there at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the week. But he's right about this. We got to
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  Speaker 1: hold all of these people accountable as well. This is
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  Speaker 1: a scary situation. We're all in holiday mode. We are
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  Speaker 1: all kind of like just chilling. We're all just like
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  Speaker 1: I said, taking in things that we didn't before, but
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  Speaker 1: he's right about this. And you know who else said this,
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: Vivaik and Elon said it too, the two guys leading
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  Speaker 1: leading the charge for DOGE, for Department of Government efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: We also have to hold all of them accountable. As
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  Speaker 1: happy as we are with the results, optimism the country.
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  Speaker 1: Things are going well. It looks like great things are
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. We got a long way to go
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  Speaker 1: before this swearing in ceremony happens. With the inauguration in
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  Speaker 1: January a long way ago. They can do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of damage now. Tucker will always take the side because
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  Speaker 1: he's in the inside of the swamp in DC. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: knows it better. He'll always take the side of he
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  Speaker 1: knows the worst of these people and what they're capable of,
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: so he'll he'll tell you about that. Right. So that's
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  Speaker 1: like Tucker's this far extreme? Are the people saying not
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  Speaker 1: so much. Trump's already working on it. But the bottom
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  Speaker 1: line is, and this is how it relates to you
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: and me and everybody else, just regular people. We pushed
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  Speaker 1: Trump over the finish line. Amazing campaign. He did it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the guy fought loves this cut enough to
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  Speaker 1: really put his life on the line. Literally, not a judge.
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  Speaker 1: His finance is like the first time around and his
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  Speaker 1: reputation put his life on the line to try to
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  Speaker 1: fix this country. But this time around, it took something
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  Speaker 1: more than that, and it took all of us. That's why.
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  Speaker 1: That's why this optimism in this was there is there
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  Speaker 1: in the country right now because it worked, because we
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  Speaker 1: pulled Trump across the finish line to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: It was like this collective consciousness of patriots in America.
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  Speaker 1: That's what got it done. That same effort. We can't
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  Speaker 1: get lazy. I don't think there's my two cents on this.
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  Speaker 1: We can't get lazy on it. We got to hold
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  Speaker 1: all of these elected officials accountable to get it done,
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  Speaker 1: to get things like this done, to step in and
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: get to work right away. And they know, I know
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: they are behind the scenes, to make sure that we
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: don't get into a hot war, to make sure that
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: we don't do something especially stupid, to make sure that
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: we don't allow an influx of you know, another what
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  Speaker 1: couple of million migrants into the country before Trump can
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  Speaker 1: fix it. They're working on it. He's working on it,
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  Speaker 1: but we have to too, and that comes from public pressure.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we have to do to make sure this
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  Speaker 1: stuff doesn't have Post your opinions on this thing. Reach
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  Speaker 1: out to your elected officials, the ones that are just
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  Speaker 1: coming in that aren't even sworn in yet. Make your
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  Speaker 1: voices heard, and make sure that you're standing up against
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  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff, because if anything bad would happen,
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  Speaker 1: none of us want that to happen. It would happen
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  Speaker 1: when we're trying to enjoy a Thanksgiving after a really
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  Speaker 1: really intense couple of years, Right, that's when we would
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  Speaker 1: do it. So it's my two cents on that. We
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  Speaker 1: got to hold the line. We had to hold them accountable.
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  Speaker 1: We're all happy with the results for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: Right won the popular vote even and the House in
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  Speaker 1: the Senate still can't let up. You gotta hold these
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  Speaker 1: guys accountable. You have to, That's what That's what Tucker's
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  Speaker 1: saying right there. Well, West, we lost a legend over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. I followed this guy for years, and I
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: know you have too. It's funny because this is kind
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: of like the theme today is going back to the eighties.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: I was talking about heavy metal shows from the eighties. Well,
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  Speaker 1: in his prime, Chuck Woollery two and two. Rip Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite television personalities of all time. We
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  Speaker 1: lost him over the weekend. He was eighty three. He
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  Speaker 1: hosted all kinds of game shows, well known for you're
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  Speaker 1: thinking it, what was the show? Come on? You played
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  Speaker 1: Hookey Home from School in the eighties at least once
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  Speaker 1: or twice, and you watched this Love Connection remember that
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  Speaker 1: that was on from eighty three to ninety four, and
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: it was that online dating before the Internet, and the
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  Speaker 1: contestants were younger. They would put them all together. Here's
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: something else about Chuck Woolery. Though. He was amazing all
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  Speaker 1: the way through pretty recently and he was pretty active
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  Speaker 1: on X. He was one of those guys in Hollywood. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he can tell me. He's just a game show host whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It was a big personality. Oh. Once he started getting
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  Speaker 1: his political opinions out there, they canceled him too. His
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  Speaker 1: X account was he was a very very patriotic dude.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of celebrities, it wasn't afraid to put it
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  Speaker 1: on the line. You know. I always think of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest cancelation story and the guy that they really kind
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  Speaker 1: of shitcaned to the side because of his opinions was
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  Speaker 1: James Woods, the actor, but he didn't care because he
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  Speaker 1: was loaded, and he just went into behind the scenes stuff,
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  Speaker 1: into production. He didn't care, and he still got his
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  Speaker 1: voice out there. So this kind of like struck me.
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  Speaker 1: And I always loved Chuck Woolery because I thought he
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  Speaker 1: was just an awesome, funny host. He was like hilarious
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  Speaker 1: well on his EX account. And I saw this this
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  Speaker 1: morning and it really did kind of kind of affect me,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, he had a lot of people who
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: loved him. This post came up from Chuck Woolery. We
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: will keep Chuck's memory alive right here on X with
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: updates from Blunt Force Truth and Mark Young Truth. I
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: guess some of his friends that were helping him handle
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: the X account. But eighty three years old, great guy.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: You can tell me it was just a game show host,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: but he was a lot more than that. Just a great,
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: classy entertainer and at the very end of his career,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: wasn't afraid to speak out. One of the few in
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: that industry that actually did it. I'm gonna miss that
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: guy a lot. All Right, We're gonna wrap it up
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: today with one of the most epic school fails I
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: have ever heard of in my life. The internet connection,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: as far as my sound goes, isn't the best. But
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I'm going to hold the mic to this because you
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: need to hear the kids reaction to this, because they
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: are absolutely amazing. I haven't heard from the parents yet,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: but you got to hear the kids. Here's what I'm
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: talking about. A school. It starts off horrible ends fine.
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  Speaker 1: A school bus driver in Colorado got fired good, but
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  Speaker 1: now they face charges after dumping forty elementary school kids
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  Speaker 1: on the side of the road in freezing weather. Huh Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He was filling in for another driver and didn't know
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  Speaker 1: the stops, so you just dumped the kids off by
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  Speaker 1: the side of the road and say square it, I'm
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: going home, not my problem. Here are two of the
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  Speaker 1: elementary school kids that were on the bus. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: most shocking thing to me, and I thought there would
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: be tears, and they are upset about it. Obviously, you
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  Speaker 1: have to listen to this and how they handle the situation.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to this. He got on the bus.
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  Speaker 2: And there was a substitute and he wouldn't let us
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  Speaker 2: leave the school until we stopped talking. And he was
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: giving all the kids stop and we're not like when
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: he was driving and missing our stops, like we were
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: getting kid opped. So he stopped right here at this
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  Speaker 2: intersection and he said, everybody get off my bus. And
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: then everybody was like stressing, like crying, and we forgot
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: our jackets on the bus. Me and my little sister.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: We live like two miles away from here. We had
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: like no idea what to do.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: First of all, when is that kid running for office?
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Or when's he getting a podcast? That's what I want
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: to listen to. That kid's amazing. He's like what eight.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I think. Incredible kid. But did you hear him right there?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: One of his descriptions was we thought we were being
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  Speaker 1: kidnapped in this idiot bus. Dride actually tells kids to
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  Speaker 1: get off, to get off his bus, and a lot
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: of them were first off so fast they had to
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  Speaker 1: leave their jackets. Huh okay, now here's the first part.
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  Speaker 1: Got fired. Uh yeah, obviously the most obvious school district
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: firing of all time and may face charges. Here's my
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: question to you, because a lot of you are parents,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: and I'm a parent too, my kids are older now,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: but obviously, what would your reaction be to this if
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: just an absolute idiot did this to your kids. Now
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: you're thinking of all the factors that are combined with it, right,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: A fill in bus driver. We know that. So this
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: is somebody that's probably I don't know this for a fact,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I don't maybe older, it's like part time work, I
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe just probably not making a ton of bucks,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: probably has all kinds of problems in his life already
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  Speaker 1: fired already Do you leave it at that? And this
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: is gonna sound so nasty. And I know this is
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the time of Laura. Are supposed to like reflect and
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: be thankful for all the great things in our lives
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  Speaker 1: and kumbaya and all the happiness. And I understand that.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I totally do. I do, I really do. But I
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: gotta tell you I'd be one of those parents that
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: would push for charges to be filed. And you're thinking, well,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: you're an ass. No, there's a reason why I swear
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's this guy that would do something
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: like this. Again, I don't think I would, hope not anyway.
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  Speaker 1: You know, let's hope he's not. Let's hope he's not
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  Speaker 1: hired by any other school district in the country, like
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: ever Again, but at some point we're talking about pushing
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: back a couple of minutes ago and holding any official accountable.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: We've got a crisis still ever since, like pre COVID
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: all the way through now. We have a crisis of
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: incompetence in this country. And I got that phrasing from
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the great Scott Adams and if you don't if you've
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: never followed his podcast Coffee with Scott Adams Fantastic daily
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: podcast in live stream, and he coined that phrase. We
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: have a crisis of incompetence in this country right now,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: exemplified by a story like that. And what that buzz
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: driver who just didn't care? Screw it, not my problem.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: You know, how often do you see that now when
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: you go into a uh, when you go into a
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: grocery store or a retail place, Hey, can you help
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: me with something? Not my department, don't care. There's a
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: lack of caring, just professionalism. I'm sure the guy was stressed.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he didn't get all the information or the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: proper training, and I understand that, but it's the ultimate
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: example of incompetence. Because you're dealing with kids in cold weather.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. You have to take care of them.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: So in a case like that, I would push I
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: would be one of those parents that would push for
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: charges against the guy, if for nothing else, to get
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the story out there, to make these districts and you know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: school officials in county officials at least aware that parents
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and people and just regular citizens are pushing back. Can't
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: put up with anymore. They just can't. Ridiculous. But that
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: kid man, a couple of kids, they were the audio
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: and we thought we were being kidnapped. That's the that's
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a well spoken kid right there, all right back in
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the comforts of a home studio. So it won't be
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: late tomorrow eight am live and hopefully all the technical
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: things work. Thanks for hanging out with me and being patient.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that so much. But man got this live
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: stream to work in the woods and I had problems
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: in a beautiful homewood, sweet studio. How lame am I?
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: But it still will live as a audio podcast just
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit later on, give me a couple of
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: minutes to post that. Wherever you get your audio podcast,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: that's where you'll find it. Just look for Wicked Radio
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: with Bill Adams. This would be on the live stream
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: replay on x and on YouTube. A little bit later
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: on and tomorrow we'll get closer and closer to the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving holiday and start to put together our list of
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: things we are grateful for, not the lame things you
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: usually see in regular TV shows. Well, we'll have some
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: fun things we could talk about. Whether all that's it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Number one takeaway today, hold these people accountable, all of them.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: We shouldn't stop at just a big election. When are
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: things going well in the country. Tucker's right, we got
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: to hold them accountable. It doesn't stop now because a
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: lot of damage can be done before the inauguration happens.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: And the second takeaway is this is our constant don't
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: ever take any crap from anybody, especially stupid bus drivers
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: leaving kids out in the cold. Have a wicked, awesome day.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out with me. I appreciate it. As always,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to him worrow.