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More Curious Aussies · 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. This is the West Carol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, seventh day of July. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. I spent my Independence Day and Independence Day
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Speaker 2: weekend or Independence weekend, it gets its Independence Day weekend,
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Speaker 2: but you get what I'm going for in Australia. As
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Speaker 2: my vacation slash work trip continues on, we have plans
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Speaker 2: later today to head by barge to a nearby popular
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Speaker 2: vacation spot, one of our favorite places to go when
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Speaker 2: we're in Australia in the northeast. It's an island called
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Speaker 2: Magnetic Island. It's a great vacation spot. You want to
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Speaker 2: talk about how some people will say this city, Townsville,
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Speaker 2: where my in laws live, is a slow, sleepy town.
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Speaker 2: Magnetic Island is even slower and even sleepier, and it's
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Speaker 2: just a great getaway. We'll be there for a few
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Speaker 2: days this week, so I'll start doing some shows from
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Speaker 2: there beginning tomorrow morning and through a few more days.
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Speaker 2: I think we've got three nights that we're going to
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Speaker 2: be there, so about three mornings that we'll be doing
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Speaker 2: some shows from there, starting the day today under an
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Speaker 2: absolutely gorgeous sunrise that is really I'll have to get
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Speaker 2: some photos and post them because it's just an absolutely
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Speaker 2: beautifully painted sky this morning as the sun is starting
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Speaker 2: to come up. And this past few days over the
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Speaker 2: short little break that we took for the holiday here,
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Speaker 2: took advantage of doing some stargazing a couple of times
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Speaker 2: at night with the boys and then with more of
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Speaker 2: the extended family as my two brothers in law here
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Speaker 2: in Australia. Jill's two brothers have now joined us here
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Speaker 2: in Townsville, with one of the brothers bringing his wife
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Speaker 2: and youngest son, my godson justin so they're here now.
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Speaker 2: But we took some opportunities Jake and Luke and I
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Speaker 2: to come out do some stargazing. It's a different sky
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Speaker 2: in the Southern hemisphere, so that chance to see the
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Speaker 2: Southern Cross for their first time. Yeah, I like the
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Speaker 2: song and we enjoyed that for a couple of nights,
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Speaker 2: and then also made it a point to be out
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Speaker 2: as the International Space Station went overhead a few times.
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Speaker 2: That's always fun to track. Typically I see it obviously
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Speaker 2: in the northern hemisphere in the Chattahoochee Valley area, and
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Speaker 2: there are some apps that you can use to track
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Speaker 2: when it's going to be making another pass overhead. We
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Speaker 2: were able to track it here a couple times, and
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Speaker 2: we had some really good views of it going over
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Speaker 2: head before we started to get some clouds. And part
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Speaker 2: of what's making this sunrise so nice today with the
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Speaker 2: colors is the fact that there are some clouds this morning. Now.
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Speaker 2: It blocked our view of the space station going overhead
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Speaker 2: last night. And that's the only thing about any sort
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Speaker 2: of stargazing, any sort of nighttime event, is you don't
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Speaker 2: get that opportunity really to really see the sky if
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Speaker 2: the clouds don't participate, So that's always part of it.
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Speaker 2: Weather is actually warmed up a little bit here, so
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Speaker 2: I know we're not dealing with what you guys are
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Speaker 2: dealing with, obviously the high heat. I know there was
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a break at some point because
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Speaker 2: I've had a few people let me know, hey, it's
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Speaker 2: not quite as different as it was, but we're starting
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Speaker 2: the day in the around seventies, high sixties, low seventies
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Speaker 2: for us here. Again, not a weather show, not bragging,
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Speaker 2: it's just me sharing some information about what we're dealing
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Speaker 2: with here. Climate wise in the Southern Hemisphere, but in
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Speaker 2: a very tropical environment here in the in the Southern Hemisphere,
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Speaker 2: in the far north part of the country, or not
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Speaker 2: the far north, but we're pretty pretty far north. We're
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Speaker 2: not up in Port Douglas or one of those places
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Speaker 2: really up top. And now the sun is just starting
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Speaker 2: to peek over the horizon, so it's a really nice
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Speaker 2: start to the day, all right. And again, a twelve
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Speaker 2: hour difference approximately from when I record versus when I upload,
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Speaker 2: twelve to fourteen hours in that range, so there is
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Speaker 2: a little window. So bear in mind if I talk
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Speaker 2: about anything that's happened recently, things that could have changed
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Speaker 2: very drastically in the next twelve to fourteen hours. So
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Speaker 2: I acknowledge that because I'm still recording in mornings and
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Speaker 2: it's just, you know, a morning that's taking place again
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Speaker 2: about I don't know, we'll say thirty teen hours. We'll
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Speaker 2: even it out before this uploads for you to hear
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Speaker 2: it for your particular Monday morning, all right. So here's
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Speaker 2: what's going on for me, And this is something I've
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Speaker 2: had a little time to think about. I shared with
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Speaker 2: you when we arrived. The fact that I had to
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Speaker 2: take an uber. At one point we had too many
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Speaker 2: passengers and too much luggage for all of us to
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Speaker 2: fit in our pickup vehicle at the airport. We were
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Speaker 2: kind of expecting that, so we ended up and I
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Speaker 2: ended up in an Uber with Jake my son, and
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Speaker 2: we took this uber ride. Not a very long uber ride,
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Speaker 2: but we were picked up at the airport by a
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Speaker 2: woman who almost immediately when she realized we were Americans,
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Speaker 2: started to ask us about Trump. That's a pretty common
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Speaker 2: thing I talked about in a previous show, how I
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Speaker 2: was here during the Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton or d
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Speaker 2: There were always questions about thoughts on that. I was
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Speaker 2: much younger then. I was tracking those things, but not
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Speaker 2: really tracking things the way I do now. Obviously this
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Speaker 2: is now a job for me. Back then, I just
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Speaker 2: tracked it because I was a young early voter at
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Speaker 2: the time and still sort of getting my bearings on
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Speaker 2: where things were. That vulnerable time when you're young and
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Speaker 2: susceptible to new ideas. But anyway, back then it was different.
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Speaker 2: And back then someone made a joke about Clinton and
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Speaker 2: you say, hey, we can do that, you can't. That's different.
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Speaker 2: Now it's drastically different. Especially all around the world with
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Speaker 2: the world being a much smaller place now thirty years later,
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Speaker 2: because it just is. The Internet's made it smaller. It's
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Speaker 2: given us access. It allows me to do a show
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Speaker 2: underneath these birds that are singing to you while I
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Speaker 2: do the show. And it's very easy for me to
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Speaker 2: do a show like this from the other side of
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Speaker 2: a planet. But what started to happen here on the
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Speaker 2: trip at various moments is we're starting to see people
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Speaker 2: that we know that are starting to do it. And
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Speaker 2: at the very beginning, you know, it was just, you know,
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Speaker 2: one person, just one uber driver that decided to ask
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Speaker 2: me and inquire about Trump and my thoughts on him
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Speaker 2: and where things were with it. We actually had some
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Speaker 2: longtime friends of my in laws who we met up
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Speaker 2: with for drinks one day at this rooftop restaurant bar,
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Speaker 2: and I could tell that the patriarch of this family,
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Speaker 2: John Is his name, was eager to ask us about Trump.
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Speaker 2: When he sat down, he was locked in on me.
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Speaker 2: He had this look on his face that something interesting
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Speaker 2: was coming. I knew something was about to come out
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Speaker 2: of his mouth. I didn't know what it was at first,
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Speaker 2: and as soon as he referred to him as mister Trump,
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Speaker 2: and as soon as he asked about mister Trump, I thought, okay,
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Speaker 2: well that's the reason for that look on his face,
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Speaker 2: and I didn't mind the conversation. He was, again much
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Speaker 2: like the Uber driver, someone who was asking from the
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Speaker 2: perspective of a very curious person from another country. And
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Speaker 2: you know, I am very much someone who is more
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Speaker 2: than prepared to have this conversation with people because of
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Speaker 2: what I do with my job. And I don't know
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Speaker 2: that they even know that I do this. I don't
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Speaker 2: know when he asked the question. I just think it
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Speaker 2: came from a genuine perspective of let me ask these
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Speaker 2: Americans about what they think about Trump. And for the record,
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Speaker 2: he himself was pro Trump. His wife apparently very pro Trump.
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Speaker 2: So that was also something that just to add some
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Speaker 2: perspective to where the conversation went with it. And I'm
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Speaker 2: bringing all this up because it gave me some time
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Speaker 2: just to and a big part of their perspective on
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Speaker 2: this is they appreciate Trump's anti woke message, they appreciate
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Speaker 2: his tough on crime policy, and they feel like economically,
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Speaker 2: when America does better, the rest of the world does.
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Speaker 2: And I agree with all of those things. All of
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Speaker 2: those things I think are a big part of why
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Speaker 2: a lot of people maybe made this switch or change
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Speaker 2: or whatever to Trump. It wasn't just that he got
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Speaker 2: a mug shot. It wasn't just that people felt like
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Speaker 2: he was being wrongly prosecuted. But you know, a lot
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Speaker 2: of people believe that to be the case. But to
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Speaker 2: be able to talk to someone who's coming into things
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Speaker 2: with that perspective in another country, and again I've been
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Speaker 2: very vocal that I think that when people in other
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Speaker 2: countries have a very staunch opinion of what American politics are,
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Speaker 2: always try to encourage them to remember that whatever information
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Speaker 2: they're getting about our politics may not be entirely accurate.
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Speaker 2: It often is not close to accurate. They're getting a
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Speaker 2: filtered and then filtered from US and then filtered, I think,
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Speaker 2: to them through whatever their media sources, and if it's
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Speaker 2: going through more than one country, you're really probably not
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Speaker 2: getting an accurate representation at all. And I don't think
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Speaker 2: that many here, and even John and talking says, oh,
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Speaker 2: we know everything we hear about Trump is awful, but
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Speaker 2: we know otherwise. The uber driver came to it from
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Speaker 2: a perspective of everything we hear about him is awful.
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Speaker 2: But she said, I suspect that that's probably not accurate,
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Speaker 2: and that's a fair assessment to make. I think it's
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Speaker 2: a very accurate representation of where things are. But I'll
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Speaker 2: say this, and you know, when I go on a
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Speaker 2: trip and i'm you know, and often you know, I
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Speaker 2: have my opinions, I talk about them here. I realize
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Speaker 2: not everyone has the ability to do what I do.
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Speaker 2: Not everybody. Oh, they have the ability to do it,
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Speaker 2: they just don't necessarily they've chosen a different career path.
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Speaker 2: Maybe that's the better way to say it. Obviously, podcasting
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Speaker 2: has also made the world a much smaller place and
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Speaker 2: giving people the opportunity to have opinions and thoughts on things.
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Speaker 2: But I'm not I'm not exactly someone who is evangelical
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Speaker 2: about my politics, just in the sense that not staunchly evange.
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Speaker 2: I'm not a door knocking evangelical about politics. How about that?
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Speaker 2: If I were out stumping specifically for a candidate, sure,
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Speaker 2: if I were, you know, trying to convince someone who
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Speaker 2: was on the fence about somebody in a primary, absolutely
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Speaker 2: I would probably offer some perspective on it. In that
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Speaker 2: regard but I'm not a door knocking evangelical. I'm not
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Speaker 2: a door knocking evangelical in my faith. I'm certainly someone
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Speaker 2: who believes you should live by example and that you
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Speaker 2: should be prepared if someone has questions, and if the
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Speaker 2: opportunity is there, you have to be prepared to talk
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Speaker 2: to someone about it. In that sense, absolutely, I mean
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Speaker 2: a Christianity itself is an evangelical faith. But when it
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Speaker 2: comes to politics, this isn't something that I'm just beating
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Speaker 2: people over the head trying to convert them. I'm at
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Speaker 2: a point in my life where if someone comes to
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Speaker 2: me and says they're staunchly a liberal, I really do
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Speaker 2: often think, why, you know, what got you to that point?
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Speaker 2: What about that side makes you so staunchly in favor
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Speaker 2: of it? And it's true also of the extreme far
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Speaker 2: right conservatives. I understand in many cases them a lot
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Speaker 2: more because most although they're portrayed as being sort of
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Speaker 2: crazy right wing extremists, in reality, most of the ultra
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Speaker 2: conservative people are just people saying, look, I want minimum
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Speaker 2: government in my life. I don't want anyone telling me
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Speaker 2: what I can and can't do. I don't want anyone
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Speaker 2: intruding into these boundaries that I've set, and I think
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Speaker 2: there are more people that really feel that way than
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Speaker 2: are comfortable saying it because it's painted a certain way.
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Speaker 2: And I think the same could be said for people
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Speaker 2: on the I won't say the extreme. I'm not talking
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Speaker 2: about on the right the people that are true extremists,
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Speaker 2: and that's not what I mean. I'm not talking about
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Speaker 2: the people who are, you know, refuse to acknowledge any
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Speaker 2: sort of authority from a government. And then on the
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Speaker 2: left you've got the people who are true absolute communists,
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Speaker 2: revolutionary communists, and sadly that number also seems to be growing.
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Speaker 2: We don't seem to see them quite as much as
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Speaker 2: a danger as we seem to want to portray many
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Speaker 2: of what are considered extremists on the right. But certainly
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Speaker 2: when we see the revolution and action and people protesting
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Speaker 2: in the streets, often paid to do so, it should
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Speaker 2: be concerning for us. It's something that we should be
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Speaker 2: aware of on the left. But many people on the
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Speaker 2: left that think that more social programs should be implemented
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Speaker 2: in some cases aren't necessarily approaching this from a let's
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Speaker 2: bring on communism perspective, And I think we should at
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Speaker 2: least acknowledge that some of them are doing it without
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Speaker 2: realizing that they're pushing for. The reality here that I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to get to is that things do tend to
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Speaker 2: slide to the left. You look at world governments and you,
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Speaker 2: I mean, look at the UK. Even in this country,
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Speaker 2: you know, your more conservative party is still a pretty
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Speaker 2: liberal group, and that's where things have a tendency to slide.
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Speaker 2: This pushback that's just happened in the US is something
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Speaker 2: that kind of goes against the trend, but often the
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Speaker 2: pendulum is going to go back the other way. So
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Speaker 2: we have to be actively trying to hang onto that.
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Speaker 2: Maybe we do need to be more evangelical about things.
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Speaker 2: Maybe I need to be more evangelical about things when
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Speaker 2: it comes to politics. But I don't necessarily see myself
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Speaker 2: as someone who is trying to travel the world to
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Speaker 2: convert people. But when I have someone that approaches things
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Speaker 2: from a question standpoint, how do you feel about this?
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Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on this? What do you think
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Speaker 2: is going right in the US right now? When it
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Speaker 2: comes to the president. I'm happy to share that I'm
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Speaker 2: more than happy to share that I don't always in
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Speaker 2: many so social circumstances, There are many cases where I
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Speaker 2: don't necessarily want to talk about it because I know
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Speaker 2: there may be people around that are exhausted from the
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Speaker 2: topic of politics, which is fair. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: political burnout when it comes to topics. And I'm going
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Speaker 2: to talk about this more later in the week. But
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Speaker 2: when you have a situation like what's going on in
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Speaker 2: New York City with a mayoral candidate who is at
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Speaker 2: his core, at best, one of those extreme left socialists.
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Speaker 2: At worst, he's probably a true communist. He's probably someone
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Speaker 2: based on what his plans are, looking to push some
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Speaker 2: of this extreme revolutionary ideas on New York City, and
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Speaker 2: people are asking, well, how does this happen? And I've
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Speaker 2: got to show I'm planning to talk about that later
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Speaker 2: in the week, maybe on Thursday, Wednesday or Thursday, probably Thursday,
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Speaker 2: about some of the reasons why that kind of thing
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Speaker 2: happens and how that happens. And I guess that it's
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Speaker 2: or maybe some reasons that we maybe do need to
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Speaker 2: be just a little bit more evangelical. We certainly need
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Speaker 2: to be more aware, and we certainly need to acknowledge
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Speaker 2: the fact that in some cases these ideas on the
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Speaker 2: extreme left are starting to bubble up and they're starting
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Speaker 2: to be accepted more, and we certainly have to be
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Speaker 2: aware of it, and we have to be ready to
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Speaker 2: Morning Show right after the break, all right, taking a
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Speaker 2: look back at Independence Day. By the numbers, Americans apparently
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Speaker 2: spend about nine billion dollars for food for Independence Day
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Speaker 2: this year and eate about one hundred and fifty million
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Speaker 2: hot dogs. And that's about the average. That's a pretty
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Speaker 2: common amount. It's at least over the last years. It's
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Speaker 2: the top drinking holiday for beer. I mentioned that before
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Speaker 2: we stepped out for a couple of days last week,
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Speaker 2: five billion dollars spent on beer and wine. Sixty Americans
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Speaker 2: attended a fourth of July barbecue or picnic. Sixteen thousand
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Speaker 2: fireworks displays held. That's not counting the ones in the neighborhoods.
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Speaker 2: Those are smaller, a little bit less. Well, they still
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Speaker 2: are probably going on though, I mean they're not going
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Speaker 2: on here obviously, but still going on there, according to reports,
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Speaker 2: at least according to my friends that have dogs. For
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Speaker 2: Americans attended a fireworks display. So also not a big surprise.
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Speaker 2: It's still a big part of the way the holiday works.
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Speaker 2: And sixty six percent. This is just a fun fact
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Speaker 2: in general and a reminder that you have to be
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Speaker 2: careful sixty six percent of all fireworks injuries occur within
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Speaker 2: a month of Independence Day, so keep that in mind.
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Speaker 2: I mentioned beer and wine, and I saw this study
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Speaker 2: and I thought this was interesting. So apparently that bottle
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Speaker 2: of wine, if you're checking the alcohol content on it,
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Speaker 2: may have more alcohol in it than you thought because
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Speaker 2: whatever is printed on the label doesn't necessarily have to
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Speaker 2: be exactly accurate. Wines list the alcohol by volume on
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Speaker 2: the bottles, but in the US, wine labels are legally
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Speaker 2: allowed to be off as much as one point five
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Speaker 2: percent alcohol by volume. So that means that a wine
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Speaker 2: labeled twelve percent could actually be as low as ten
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Speaker 2: point five percent or as high as thirteen point five percent.
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Speaker 2: So it could have a significant effect on a few things. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: if you're drinking and you're trying to drink in like
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Speaker 2: a moderate amount, and you think, all right, I need
23:09
Speaker 2: to know how long before I can you know, safely
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Speaker 2: drive again. Or it could also mean that your calorie
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Speaker 2: count is off. Experts worn that about twenty percent of
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Speaker 2: bottles actually fall outside that generous range of one point
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Speaker 2: five percent, So another thing to consider, maybe it's got
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Speaker 2: significantly more in there than you were expecting. Or maybe less,
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Speaker 2: but you don't want to take a chance on that.
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Speaker 2: Nobody wants to take any crazy chances on any of that.
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Speaker 2: So all right, corn in the US. Expect a lot
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Speaker 2: of it. Be ready to eat lots of it. We
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Speaker 2: already eat a lot of it. We always consume a
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Speaker 2: lot of it, whether we're eating it just as corn,
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Speaker 2: or we're eating it as it's been converted into show
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Speaker 2: or you know, using it in some sort of an
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Speaker 2: ethanol capacity in our cars or whatever, or other places. Well,
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Speaker 2: apparently the USDA has done a survey where American farmers
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Speaker 2: say they've planted more than one million acres of corn
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Speaker 2: that will grow this year, bringing the country's total to
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Speaker 2: ninety six point six million acres of corn across the country.
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Speaker 2: And as farmers are growing more corn, they're actually growing
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Speaker 2: less of some other commodities like wheat and soybeans, And
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Speaker 2: in some cases that means we're having to bring it
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Speaker 2: in from other places. So be ready for lots and
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Speaker 2: lots of corn. And maybe that will mean that the
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Speaker 2: price of corn goodback actually go down. I don't know,
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Speaker 2: it's already. I mean, the reason that we grow so
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Speaker 2: much of it, and the reason that we use so
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Speaker 2: much of it is it's already starting, I guess with
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Speaker 2: a decent price point to begin with for us, right,
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Speaker 2: and that's that makes sense why farmers would go so
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Speaker 2: much of it. Triple A says that about seventy two
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Speaker 2: and a half million Americans traveled fifty miles from home
25:09
Speaker 2: or more over this past holiday weekend. Hopefully you got
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Speaker 2: a head start on it and beat some of the
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Speaker 2: traffic that was out there, because sixty one and a
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Speaker 2: half million of those traveled by car. That's a two
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Speaker 2: point two percent increase from a year ago, the highest
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Speaker 2: number ever recorded. So with folks traveling a lot on
25:32
Speaker 2: the road this past weekend, it leads to some of
25:34
Speaker 2: those questions that come up when it comes to what's
25:40
Speaker 2: the best thing to eat when you're on a road trip.
25:42
Speaker 2: And with that many people driving, that means stores like
25:46
Speaker 2: BUCkies for certain, we're extra busy. So what is the
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Speaker 2: perfect food in the car? My good friend Sean Krusen
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Speaker 2: says combos are the best thing to eat in the car,
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Speaker 2: and many people agree with arguments online. You have the
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Speaker 2: pretzel shell that you can kind of slowly chew on,
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Speaker 2: and then you get to the middle with whatever that
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Speaker 2: flavor is probably cheese in most cases there's some version
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Speaker 2: of it, and that you can eat a bag of
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Speaker 2: those for many miles. Some argue for corn nuts you
26:16
Speaker 2: just have to take it slow and you can't pile
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Speaker 2: them all in your mouth at once. Peanut m and
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Speaker 2: ms also get the job done a similar to the combos,
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Speaker 2: and that you can just let the chocolate melt and
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Speaker 2: then work on the peanut. Beef jerky, of course is
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Speaker 2: great when you don't want the insulin spike, but you
26:33
Speaker 2: want some protein that works. And of course people that
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Speaker 2: are fans of Twizzlers will eat them and then I've
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Speaker 2: seen people say sunflower seeds, but you still got to
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Speaker 2: have somewhere to deal with the shells if you're eating
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Speaker 2: them the more traditional way. There's a lot going on
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Speaker 2: when it comes to sunflower seeds trying to eat them
26:55
Speaker 2: in the car. So I don't know, I don't know.
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