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Now We See Why It Was Walz · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start
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Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, eighth day of December. I'm West Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. We enter into tech week for the Nutcracker
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Speaker 2: shows coming up this weekend. We have a Friday show,
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Speaker 2: it's not open to the public, but we have a
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Speaker 2: couple of shows on Friday, not open to the public.
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Speaker 2: And then we've got our Saturday evening show and our
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Speaker 2: Sunday matinee, and we invite you to join us for
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Speaker 2: the annual tradition that is the Columbus Bealley's presentation of
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Speaker 2: The Nutcracker. My seventh year in the role of Mother
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Speaker 2: Ginger did a quick little appearance at the River Center
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Speaker 2: on Saturday in full costume, first time this year. I
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Speaker 2: was in the full wardrobe, war paint and everything. Baby.
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Speaker 2: I had the and in Mother Ginger, she's you know,
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Speaker 2: she's she's a diva. She's a diva, and she was
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Speaker 2: fully made up, fully ready to go and at a
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Speaker 2: good time. Great to be there. I had three of
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Speaker 2: the girls that are serving as polis Chanel's this year
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Speaker 2: for the show. The other four I have seven total
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Speaker 2: this year that the other four not able to be
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Speaker 2: there that day, but we were there as ambassadors, spent
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Speaker 2: some time with our Mayor, Skip Henderson. He was there
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Speaker 2: for the ribbon cutting there at the River Center, officially
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Speaker 2: kicking off this holiday season for the River Center. It
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Speaker 2: was also the day of Columbus's Christmas Parade. I get
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Speaker 2: do they still call it? It was a Christmas parade
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Speaker 2: when I was a kid. Do they call it a
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Speaker 2: holiday parade? I don't know what they call it now.
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Speaker 2: I think it's a Christmas parade, but was going on
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Speaker 2: while we were there, and then I guess it's sort
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Speaker 2: of wrapped up there near I believe it wrapped up
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Speaker 2: near the river Center because people were coming in as
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Speaker 2: the parade was kind of winding down or wandering in
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Speaker 2: maybe I don't know. Some came in for the bathroom,
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Speaker 2: but some were coming in to check out those gingerbread
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Speaker 2: houses in there. Its presentation that is put on every
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Speaker 2: year there inside the River Center. I don't know how
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Speaker 2: long they've been doing that tradition, but it's like the
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Speaker 2: Christmas trees down there, those gingerbread houses. It smelt I
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Speaker 2: like getting there for the early I mean, it's not
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Speaker 2: that the gingerbread starts to stink. That's not what I mean.
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Speaker 2: The gingerbread when it's fresh and it's just kind of
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Speaker 2: just been put in there at that whole place has
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Speaker 2: that amazing ginger bread smell, you know. And we were
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Speaker 2: there for the kickoff for that, So the mayor was
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Speaker 2: there cutting the ribbon, officially kicking off the holiday season
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Speaker 2: and diving into a pushing forward, I guess for us
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Speaker 2: into Tech Week, as we will be moving in a collectively,
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Speaker 2: the show will be moving into the River Center, and
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Speaker 2: you know, all the gear goes in there. I guess today,
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Speaker 2: I mean that's that's they do the moving in. I'm
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Speaker 2: not I'm a part of the moving in process. I
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Speaker 2: show up for rehearsals once everything is all moved in.
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Speaker 2: So we got rehearsals all week and then our show's
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Speaker 2: coming up this weekend, so a lot of rehearsing and
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Speaker 2: finally on the stage. I guess Thursday is our first
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Speaker 2: rehearsal with the orchestra. Always great to be in there
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Speaker 2: with the orchestra, and it's just it's one of those things.
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Speaker 2: I've got a lot of friends that I've made over
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Speaker 2: the years that are do Nutcracker shows performances all around
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Speaker 2: the country, and when they hear that we have a
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Speaker 2: full orchestra for the show, live music, they just they're
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Speaker 2: they're blown away. They're like, nobody's doing that anymore. And
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Speaker 2: it's like, well, we still do. And we got Paul
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Speaker 2: Hostetter and who is the maestro, and he it's just
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Speaker 2: it's such a great experience. He is one of the
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Speaker 2: few faces that I can actually see when I'm on
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Speaker 2: stage while he's down there conducting and he's looking up
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Speaker 2: at me. He's he's such a pro. But I look
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Speaker 2: down and he has he's locked in on me on
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Speaker 2: stage when I'm performing, and it's it's such a cool
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Speaker 2: little connection that we have. And he just tells me
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Speaker 2: every year it's one of his favorite parts of the show,
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Speaker 2: one of his favorite parts of the year when he's
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Speaker 2: in the River Center conducting and and we're doing the
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Speaker 2: Nutcracker and we're blessed to have him and his whole
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Speaker 2: group that will be performing there with us Voices of
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Speaker 2: the Valley also providing the vocals in the show. And
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Speaker 2: you know, don't take for granted, is all I'm telling you,
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Speaker 2: people of Columbus, Georgia and the surrounding area. And I know,
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Speaker 2: as a member of the cast of the show, I
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Speaker 2: tell you, hey, come check it out. But because we're
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Speaker 2: you know, I see the work that goes on behind
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Speaker 2: the scenes to put this show together. But I also
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Speaker 2: just want to remind you not only you know, getting
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Speaker 2: a show in the River Center is always a great time.
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Speaker 2: It's just a great facility for shows. But when you
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Speaker 2: can see the Nutcracker performed, and these the students of
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Speaker 2: the Columbus Ballet, the other performers that are involved in it,
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Speaker 2: the the non student performers putting in the work that
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Speaker 2: goes into it, and but these students are just fantastic.
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Speaker 2: A couple of them are really standing out. And there's
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Speaker 2: some that I've been doing shows with this this whole
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Speaker 2: seven show process six years, you know technically, because you know,
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Speaker 2: you start and then now this is my seventh show.
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Speaker 2: So just seeing them grow as performers and as dancers
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Speaker 2: and what they have done as far as they're dancing,
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Speaker 2: and I'm just excited to get back on the stage
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Speaker 2: with them. But I say that the River Center the facility,
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Speaker 2: and then just to know that you're getting this experience
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Speaker 2: of this orchestra mixed in with voices of the valley.
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Speaker 2: It's all just a great overall experience for you. So
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Speaker 2: check it out and get your tickets. I've been saying
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Speaker 2: this now for a few months, but get your tickets
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Speaker 2: either from the Columbus Ballet dot org, the River Center
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Speaker 2: box office, or Rivercenter dot org. Don't get them from
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Speaker 2: anywhere else. You run the risk of the prices going
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Speaker 2: up because someone buys them and they're reselling them to you.
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Speaker 2: Some people do that and they go, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 2: this is terrible. Why has this happened to me? And
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Speaker 2: someone who is brokering them. How about that all right?
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Speaker 2: So we have that going on this week. I also
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Speaker 2: have Columbus State University graduation this week, and if you
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Speaker 2: have a graduate in your life, I will be there
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Speaker 2: calling their names as they walk across the stage. And
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Speaker 2: it just makes the week more insane for me. But
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Speaker 2: I love it. It's two of my favorite things that
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Speaker 2: I do each year twice for graduation and the Nutcracker
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Speaker 2: once a year. But when they kind of all aligne
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Speaker 2: it's hectic, but it, I mean, it consolidates it. It's
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Speaker 2: not two different weekends of these things. But Thursday night
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Speaker 2: this week is the hooting ceremony for the the candidates
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Speaker 2: that are doing that, and then Friday is the graduation ceremony.
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Speaker 2: So my Thursday will involve the hooting ceremony rehearsal, and
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Speaker 2: Friday will involve three graduation ceremonies and then a show
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Speaker 2: that evening, and then Saturday and Sunday or just the show.
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Speaker 2: So it calms down quite a bit right then. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: I'm excited about the opportunity. I appreciate Columbus State. I'm
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Speaker 2: a proud graduate of Columbus State University. My wife is
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Speaker 2: employed there. I am sort of employed there a couple
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Speaker 2: times a year, and I do obviously work with them
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Speaker 2: on a number of different things. But I'm just excited
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Speaker 2: that they give me the opportunity to do it. It
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Speaker 2: is a tough job. People always ask that. I was
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Speaker 2: just discussing that with someone the other day. Yes, it's tough.
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Speaker 2: It is every bit as challenging as you would imagine
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Speaker 2: it is reading those names, and I just enjoy it.
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Speaker 2: I try to get them right. I do the best
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Speaker 2: I can. I go through the show, and then when
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Speaker 2: it's done, I hope to feel like I got somewhere
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Speaker 2: at least in the mid to high ninety percent accurate.
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Speaker 2: a lot of time this morning, and this topic is
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Speaker 2: a pretty short one. I was discussing recently with someone
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Speaker 2: the sad, hard cold reality that I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of people maybe haven't quite fully embraced on the left yet.
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Speaker 2: They still don't quite get why Trump won reelection, And
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Speaker 2: it's just trying to process some of these things that,
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Speaker 2: you know, we had a president who and I believe me,
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Speaker 2: the last thing I would do is mock the mental
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Speaker 2: state of a any person, but especially of a senior person,
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Speaker 2: And we had a president who just wasn't cap of
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Speaker 2: doing the job. I don't know at what point he
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Speaker 2: stopped being capable of doing the job. I don't know
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Speaker 2: that he was ever fully able to do the job.
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Speaker 2: But what we witnessed was a president who was I
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Speaker 2: think taken advantage of I think it was elder abuse.
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Speaker 2: I think when his son Hunter said that they were
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Speaker 2: shoving ambient down his throat to you know, kind of
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Speaker 2: keep him, to contain him whatever. It was the word
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Speaker 2: that he used, but he said that they were doing
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Speaker 2: that in that period of time when he was supposed
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Speaker 2: to be going to the debate, Right, that's what was
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Speaker 2: supposed to happen, and as far as the debate, he
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Speaker 2: was supposed to have this performance. But what happened, according
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Speaker 2: to Hunter was yeah, it was part of them given
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Speaker 2: him the ambient. So if they're sedating him and they're
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Speaker 2: using the ambient to do that while they're behind the
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Speaker 2: scenes running the show. They picked him a vice presidential
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Speaker 2: candidate and Kamala Harris, who I firmly believe the reason
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Speaker 2: that she was picked is that they didn't think that
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Speaker 2: he was going to be able to serve, you know,
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Speaker 2: eight years. They wanted her to be ready to go,
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Speaker 2: and they thought that she would be kind of just
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Speaker 2: as checked out as he was and in a position
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Speaker 2: where they could the people behind the scenes. This shadow
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Speaker 2: government thing that we have always heard about and people
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Speaker 2: said it's conspiracy, it's not real, And when you look
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Speaker 2: at it and you say, well, there's people behind the
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Speaker 2: scenes working and running the show, and they have a
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Speaker 2: president that is not capable of doing anything, and they're
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Speaker 2: just using this auto pen. This is how this all
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Speaker 2: played out for us. I mean, think about it. We
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Speaker 2: would be told no, no, no, there's no there's no
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Speaker 2: you know, swamp to be drained. This isn't what's happening
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Speaker 2: behind the scenes. But we've learned with the auto pen.
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Speaker 2: That's it. That's what happened. And I've talked about this
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Speaker 2: before quite a bit, but what I wanted to touch
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Speaker 2: on was this next phase of all of this when
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Speaker 2: the choice for vice president, when Harris just magically suddenly
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Speaker 2: became the candidate, no primary, no vote, no one had
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Speaker 2: to say. The left said the right was a threat
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Speaker 2: to democracy, and they eliminated any type of democracy in
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Speaker 2: this democratic republic that we live in, and they eliminated it.
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Speaker 2: They said, we'll decide who the candidate will be once
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Speaker 2: we get Joe Biden to step down, because he's you know,
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Speaker 2: not he exposed himself as someone who wasn't competent to
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Speaker 2: do the job. So they picked ultimately this vice president,
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Speaker 2: I assume, thinking well, she'll be just as incompetent as him.
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Speaker 2: She won't really be. We'll just run things. We'll get
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Speaker 2: a new auto pen with her signature, and that's what
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Speaker 2: we'll do. And then they made a choice. I say
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Speaker 2: they because I don't think she had anything to do
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Speaker 2: with it to go with, instead of going with a
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Speaker 2: candidate for VP that would have given them an actual opportunity.
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Speaker 2: Governor Shapiro in Pennsylvania should have been the pick. I
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Speaker 2: told you that on this show back when it happened.
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Speaker 2: That was the moment when I knew they weren't serious.
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Speaker 2: They weren't concerned about winning. They were too caught up
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Speaker 2: in well, we've got the free Palestine and the protesting
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Speaker 2: going on. It was the first moment when it became
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Speaker 2: really clear for a lot of longtime Democrat Jewish voters,
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Speaker 2: like they don't really they're not looking at us anymore.
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Speaker 2: And that was part of what happened in this election.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if they'll go back. I don't know
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Speaker 2: why you would. But and then so they went with
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Speaker 2: the Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. And now these stories of
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Speaker 2: all of this fraud, fraud schemes, hundreds of million dollars
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Speaker 2: stolen from Minnesota, taxpayers, and people are starting to point out, well,
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Speaker 2: wait a minute, what's he doing. And this is when
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Speaker 2: I've realized that that's the reason he was the pick.
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Speaker 2: You don't pick Shapiro when you want someone who is
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Speaker 2: going to basically be an incompetent dolt. What they were
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Speaker 2: looking for was incompetent adult president, incompetent adult vice president,
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Speaker 2: and that's what they had. Then the president had to
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Speaker 2: drop out. Again, I'm not mocking his cognition. That's not
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Speaker 2: what I'm doing. The last thing that I'm doing. We
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Speaker 2: have too many instances of dementia in my family. This
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Speaker 2: is the last thing I'm doing. I'm just pointing out
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Speaker 2: the fact that we had someone who fraudulently took an
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Speaker 2: office that he wasn't. And I know people are trying
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Speaker 2: to say, now, well, Trump's in the same position he's doing. No,
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Speaker 2: you can't just turn it and say, well, we went
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Speaker 2: through that now you guys are doing that. That's not
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Speaker 2: what's happening. But anyway, so they wanted Harris incompetent VP,
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Speaker 2: their air apparent, to be president. They thought maybe they
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Speaker 2: could squeeze sixteen years of incompetence out of them and
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Speaker 2: they could do all sorts of things for sixteen years
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Speaker 2: with an auto pen. And now we see why they
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Speaker 2: tried to coroinate Governor Waltz because Governor Walls apparently is
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Speaker 2: the one who sleep at the wheel and really cost
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Speaker 2: the voters of Minnesota a lot of money. By not
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Speaker 2: I mean housing programs, autism services. And that's a bigger
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Speaker 2: story than I can cover in five to seven minutes
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Speaker 2: this morning. But I'm just getting a clear understanding now
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Speaker 2: of why he was the pick, why he was the
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Speaker 2: one they thought should be the vice president, and maybe
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Speaker 2: after the break. Well, I would say most of us,
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Speaker 2: at least those of us in the southeast, would love
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Speaker 2: to have a true white Christmas.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: And last week we've had this kind of strange weather pattern.
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Speaker 2: I guess it's been happening where we have. It's been
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Speaker 2: quite a bit colder for us, but a lot of
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Speaker 2: the country last week. I guess by the end of
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Speaker 2: the week last week, about forty percent of the US
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Speaker 2: had snow on the ground. And Uh, basically too early
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Speaker 2: to call anything as far as Christmas goes, as far
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Speaker 2: as the weather patterns and things. But they say, you know,
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Speaker 2: going by historical hopes. If you live in Minnesota, Maine, Idaho,
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Speaker 2: Upstate New York, Ski Towns in New England, and the Rockies,
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Speaker 2: obviously that's where you got your best shot at actually
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Speaker 2: seeing a white Christmas this year or any year, just
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Speaker 2: playing the odds. Ski Town's in Colorado a ninety four
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Speaker 2: to ninety nine percent chance of snow, Tahoe City, California,
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Speaker 2: and eighty three percent chance. But obviously we know Southeast
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Speaker 2: is a whole different ballgame, a lot of large cities
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Speaker 2: not really experiencing white Christmases. Typically, Denver would be at
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Speaker 2: the top of the list. In Chicago, both in the
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Speaker 2: low thirty percent range thirty four percent for Denver, thirty
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Speaker 2: three for Chicago, Indianapolis, Boston, and Columbus, Ohio rounding out
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Speaker 2: the top five for best chances for snow at Christmas
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Speaker 2: each year. But don't hold your breath. I mean, there's
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Speaker 2: always hope. We had flurries here in the Chattahoochee Valley
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Speaker 2: one year at Christmas, and that's probably about the best
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Speaker 2: that we're really gonna get. I mean, it's just the
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Speaker 2: reality of where things are, all right, It's that time
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Speaker 2: of year to revisit everybody's favorite Christmas movie, at least
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Speaker 2: by the state where they live. And it just depends
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Speaker 2: on who's watching what each time of year. And you know,
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Speaker 2: we all have our favorites, ones that we watch every year,
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Speaker 2: some that we may watch a few times each year.
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Speaker 2: A new survey as two thousand Americans what their favorite
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Speaker 2: holiday movies were and determined which is the absolute favorite
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Speaker 2: in each state. The Big Winter National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
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Speaker 2: a favorite in thirty one of fifty states. A Christmas
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Speaker 2: Story is the top choice in ten states, home alone
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Speaker 2: in five states and basically looking at some of the states.
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Speaker 2: The other four states are Arkansas, where How the Grinchtoal
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Speaker 2: Cristmas is at the top, Wyoming loves Elf, Rhode Island
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Speaker 2: loves the Holiday, and Oklahoma picked the Santa Claus. It's interesting,
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Speaker 2: and I know it depends on who is surveyed and
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Speaker 2: all those sorts of things, but it is interesting that
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Speaker 2: certain states they have these sort of breakdowns, and it
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Speaker 2: all depends on obviously who's answering the questions, which member
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Speaker 2: of the household maybe is doing it, and all those
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Speaker 2: sorts of things. I mean, any of those movies in
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Speaker 2: that list, I would say of all of those movies,
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Speaker 2: the one that I have probably watched the least would
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Speaker 2: be maybe the Santa Claus. That's probably towards the bottom
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Speaker 2: of my list. And it's not that I have anything
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Speaker 2: against it, I just haven't really watched it that much.
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Speaker 2: Case you're wondering in this just for us here in
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Speaker 2: the southeast, Alabama has a Christmas Story at the top
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Speaker 2: of their list, Georgia has National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation at
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Speaker 2: the top of the list, as does Florida. And just
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Speaker 2: kind of scanning some of these other North Carolina and
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Speaker 2: South Carolina both National Lampoons Christmas Vacation states Tennessee as well,
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Speaker 2: and just kind of gives you a little idea where
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Speaker 2: we are. I mean, it's pretty heavy at least down
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Speaker 2: in the southeast for that movie. And I was trying
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Speaker 2: to see, yeah, other than Alabama, really like Mississippi on
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Speaker 2: up into North Carolina obviously, so pretty heavy in the
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Speaker 2: southeast for that. So in case you were wondering, even
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Speaker 2: as far as Texas, I don't know how. I mean,
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Speaker 2: obviously it's thirty one state, so you could probably just
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Speaker 2: keep on rolling around and see how many places that
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Speaker 2: that would hold the top spot. I do end up
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Speaker 2: watching that one at some point every year, once or
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Speaker 2: maybe twice. I think a Christmas Story is one of
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Speaker 2: those you have it on in the background and you're
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Speaker 2: kind of watching it. So Love actually is one that
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Speaker 2: Jill and I watch every year, or whenever we're wrapping
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Speaker 2: Christmas presents, kids are in bed and we just put
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Speaker 2: that one on. We like that movie a lot. It's
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Speaker 2: just our thing, you know, we sit there and we
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Speaker 2: watch it. But yeah, I mean, no bad Sana anywhere
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