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SNAP Benefits and Nutrition · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day and you're listening to the West Carol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Thursday morning, thirtieth day of October. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. Halloween Eve, all Hallo's Eve Eve, if you will.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. We're knocking on the door November. That's
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Speaker 2: all I know, knocking on the door of November. And
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Speaker 2: then it's really just like full full speed ahead, foot
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Speaker 2: on the accelerator, heavy foot right on into Christmas. It'll
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Speaker 2: be twenty twenty six and then we're just gonna go
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Speaker 2: what happened? Talk about it a lot, but really the
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Speaker 2: reason I talk about it is because I want to
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Speaker 2: make sure everybody just takes a minute to enjoy what
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Speaker 2: they're in right now. That's really the purpose for it.
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Speaker 2: Enjoy the moment, enjoy today. Maybe let it be your
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Speaker 2: best day. I tell my kids just about every day
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Speaker 2: when they go to school, Hey, go be your best
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Speaker 2: you Just go do that. That's all anybody can ask
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Speaker 2: for you Just go be the best you you can
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Speaker 2: be today. Make the most of it, you know, represent
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Speaker 2: be the best person that you're going to be for
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Speaker 2: you be the best person you're going to be for
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Speaker 2: God most importantly, be the best person you're going to
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Speaker 2: be for your family, for your school, for your community,
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Speaker 2: all those things. These were things that we were taught
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Speaker 2: when I was a kid. These things were enforced in us.
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Speaker 2: We were told, you know, respect the police. We were
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Speaker 2: told that even if you disagreed with who the president
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Speaker 2: was and you didn't like their politics, they were still
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Speaker 2: your president. These were all things that were told to
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Speaker 2: us a lot. And you know, it was reminders that
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Speaker 2: it's important that we live our lives a certain way,
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Speaker 2: that we try to go and be good stewards of
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Speaker 2: the planet and you know, don't litter and don't panic
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Speaker 2: and say that the whole earth is going to catch
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Speaker 2: on fire. Oh, by the way, you see, Bill Gates
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Speaker 2: is backing down on that. We've gone from apocalyptic to eh,
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Speaker 2: it's gonna get hot, but it's not going to be
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Speaker 2: that bad. Like I'm not quoting him, but he definitely
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Speaker 2: has changed his tune. It has drastically changed from Ah,
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Speaker 2: Florida's gonna be underwater and we're not gonna have any
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Speaker 2: crops and you know, like eighty percent of the planet's
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Speaker 2: gonna die and he's like, no, no, the way we're going,
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Speaker 2: everybody will be fine. I wonder what changed, what exactly
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Speaker 2: changed for Bill Gates that made him kind of backpedal
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Speaker 2: and go a little bit the other way. I wonder
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about something as we're in this
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Speaker 2: situation of you know, we've we've had all these votes
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Speaker 2: to not reopen the government. The left is Democrats or
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Speaker 2: they're they're using a tactic that I don't think is working.
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Speaker 2: I saw stats on I think it was CNN had that.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see them on CNN. I saw the story
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Speaker 2: associated with it, but the poll was attributed to CNN
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Speaker 2: that the view of Democrats and view of Republicans. It
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Speaker 2: was a twelve point swing in favor of Republicans because
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Speaker 2: of the government shutdown, because Democrats have continuously voted against
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Speaker 2: reopening the government, even if it's just something to hold
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Speaker 2: over for a little while, to make sure that we're
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Speaker 2: not in a position where things are going to dry
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Speaker 2: up on the first and all those things. And they're
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Speaker 2: really using this tactic of trying to make things as
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Speaker 2: difficult as possible on the American people so that they
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Speaker 2: can get what it is that they want. This is
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Speaker 2: their way of offering up opposition to the president and
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Speaker 2: a few things on that, because I've got friends that
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Speaker 2: don't seem to understand that when you have a two
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Speaker 2: party system, you have a party in power, you have
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Speaker 2: aposing party, and the opposing party part of their job
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Speaker 2: is to oppose. But you also can't neglect the citizens
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Speaker 2: of the country that are depending on you to do
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Speaker 2: the right thing at the right time. And you can't
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Speaker 2: dig in so much that your pride or your it's
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Speaker 2: not even pride anymore. This is just about we're gonna
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Speaker 2: make the American people suffer that are relying on certain things.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna make the air traffic controllers, and we're gonna
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Speaker 2: make people relying on snap benefits, and we're going to
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Speaker 2: make attempts to try to make even military suffer in
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Speaker 2: some cases as far as not getting paid. Obviously Trump
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Speaker 2: administration doing their best to take care of all of that.
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Speaker 2: But you get to a point where you're making the
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Speaker 2: American people suffer and blaming it on the other side,
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Speaker 2: and it's not them, it's not Republicans. Republicans have already
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Speaker 2: pushed things through the House. People are pointing at Speaker
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Speaker 2: Johnson and saying, why aren't you making things happen, and
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Speaker 2: it's just they've already passed their side. They're waiting on
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Speaker 2: the Senate to get it together, and Democrats are not
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Speaker 2: don't have enough crossing over to help make this stuff,
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Speaker 2: this continuing resolution go or approve a budget anything. They're
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Speaker 2: not wanting that. They want suffering, they want pain, and
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Speaker 2: they want to be able to blame those things on
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Speaker 2: Republicans because hey, guess what I just mentioned twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 2: that's a midterm election year, and we have people that
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Speaker 2: are desperately hoping that Democrats can take control and you know,
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Speaker 2: try to then truly be an opposition party. And I
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Speaker 2: you know, if the polling is correct and you have
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Speaker 2: a twelve percent swing of positivity towards Republicans away from Democrats,
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Speaker 2: that bodes really badly for next year for Democrats. This
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Speaker 2: seems to be backfiring horribly. And if at the time
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Speaker 2: of recording nothing has been resolved, I don't expect anything
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Speaker 2: to be resolved, you know, right away, it could I
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Speaker 2: hope that it gets resolved because obviously, if it's not
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Speaker 2: resolved by Saturday, then you've got folks that are relying
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Speaker 2: on snap benefits and things that aren't going to get them.
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Speaker 2: And I want to talk a little bit about snap
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Speaker 2: benefits and all this today because there's a few things
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Speaker 2: that kind of go with this. And I think that
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Speaker 2: sometimes people have a tendency to just assume that everyone
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Speaker 2: getting a government handout isn't putting any effort in and
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Speaker 2: that's not fair, that's not an accurate representation of anything.
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Speaker 2: There's people that work very hard that just need that help,
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Speaker 2: need that assistance. There's a generational thing that's taken place.
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Speaker 2: I know someone who their spouse was very, very sick
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Speaker 2: for a very long time, still is and for many
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Speaker 2: years I would just say, well, you know, she worked
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Speaker 2: for a long time, have you not considered maybe trying
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Speaker 2: to get disability And he's like, I don't. I don't
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Speaker 2: want to do that. I don't want to do that,
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Speaker 2: And he would have been generationally, it was against what
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Speaker 2: he thought was right for me. It was like I
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Speaker 2: would have I would have done it immediately once she
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Speaker 2: was not really able to go to work, and I
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Speaker 2: would have done everything I could to get it, and
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Speaker 2: she would have certainly qualified, I assume. And it's a
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Speaker 2: generational thing. And then you have some people who you
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Speaker 2: know maybe grew up getting government help and they got
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Speaker 2: to a point where they said, never again, I'm not
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Speaker 2: going to get there. I'm not going to allow that
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Speaker 2: to happen. And some of those people now are part
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Speaker 2: of this boomer generation and they look down at people
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Speaker 2: that are, you know, struggling to get by. And we
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Speaker 2: are in this weird transition period where prices went up
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Speaker 2: thanks to a lot of changes made during the Biden
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Speaker 2: administration that pushed record inflation, and prices, in spite of
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Speaker 2: what people think, they don't often go back down. I know,
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Speaker 2: we've had like eggs go back down, and there have
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Speaker 2: been some things that have gone, but eggs weren't up
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Speaker 2: just because of inflation. Eggs were up because of the
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Speaker 2: bird flu. So some of that has sort of leveled off.
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Speaker 2: But it's not like just, you know, you get a
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Speaker 2: new president and he does the you know, I dream agenie,
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Speaker 2: you know, arms together and head nod and then magically
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Speaker 2: all the prices go down. It's just not how it works.
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Speaker 2: Inflation typically does its thing, and then wages have to
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Speaker 2: sort of correct themselves and get everybody sorted out. There's
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Speaker 2: a lot of people that are struggling. Snap benefits are
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Speaker 2: something that there's a lot of people that need. Now,
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Speaker 2: there are people who have been on snap benefits for
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Speaker 2: you know, twenty years, thirty years, whatever, and have no
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Speaker 2: plans of ever getting off of them. Will dodge work,
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Speaker 2: will dodge shifts at work, whatever they've got to do
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Speaker 2: to keep them. That's a separate issue, and that's the
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Speaker 2: thing that makes people look down their nose at people.
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Speaker 2: And I've known those people too. I know some people
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Speaker 2: that do that. They will they know exactly how much
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Speaker 2: they can earn each month and not have it affect
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Speaker 2: their benefits, and then they just refuse to go to
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Speaker 2: work once they get to that point and they say, nope,
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Speaker 2: I've hit my max for the month. I'm taking the
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Speaker 2: rest of the month off, and you know, if I
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Speaker 2: lose my job, so be it.
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Speaker 1: Whatever.
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Speaker 2: So there's that side of it too, And I understand
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Speaker 2: this is not an easy issue. It's not it's not
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Speaker 2: one of those things that just uniform across the board. However,
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Speaker 2: and I would would also just like to point this
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Speaker 2: out because this is the other side of this conversation
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Speaker 2: that gets real tricky. And I've talked a little bit
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Speaker 2: about it before, but it's come up again now. That
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Speaker 2: we're knocking on the door of this shutdown of SNAP
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Speaker 2: benefits is there were many middle class Americans that feel like, hey,
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Speaker 2: you should have those benefits if you need them, and
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Speaker 2: you need to be able to feed your family and
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Speaker 2: you need to be able to eat. There's a frustration though,
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Speaker 2: at what we're seeing as far as how much the
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Speaker 2: grocery bill is being taken care of by benefits that
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Speaker 2: come from you know, taxpayers, and then exactly what's being
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Speaker 2: purchased with it, and how I just saw this stat
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Speaker 2: the other day with the highest thing that one of
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Speaker 2: the maybe the highest amount of SNAP benefits are spent
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Speaker 2: on soft drinks Coke, PEPSI, sprite, those kinds of things,
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Speaker 2: and it's this is not a supplemental nutrition. Look, I
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Speaker 2: am full disclosure. My grandfather worked for Coke. My dad
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Speaker 2: worked for Coke because of them working there and them
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Speaker 2: having the opportunity to purchase stock as employees there, there
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Speaker 2: is stock that I have that So I've got nothing
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Speaker 2: against the Coca Cola company. That's not where I'm coming from.
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Speaker 2: I'm just pointing out the fact that that is not
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Speaker 2: really the best use of these things. It's supposed to
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Speaker 2: be about nutrition. And I know that we have programs
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Speaker 2: like WICIC, like Women's Inference Children that's you know, designed
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Speaker 2: to make sure that you know, small children and babies
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Speaker 2: are getting milk and getting you know, calcium and those
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Speaker 2: sorts of things. And look, there's a strong but we
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Speaker 2: we just had the first Lady and the Obama administration
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Speaker 2: and Michelle Obama, who her whole thing was about trying
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Speaker 2: to cut down on She was working on diabetes and
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Speaker 2: working on overweight children and school lunches and these were
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Speaker 2: all things that were part of it. But there was
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Speaker 2: zero conversation about restricting what could be purchased that I recall.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you tell me if I'm wrong. I don't remember
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Speaker 2: there ever being real conversations about what could be purchased
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Speaker 2: with snap benefits back then. I think they were still
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Speaker 2: called food stamps, but I don't know that there was
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Speaker 2: ever discussion. You know, maybe you cut out some of
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Speaker 2: the cookies and potato chips and those kinds of things
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Speaker 2: and focus on, you know, maybe hitting the fruit and
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Speaker 2: vegetable section a little bit harder. Anyway, So I want
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Speaker 2: to touch on this too, just because it's almost Halloween
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Speaker 2: and it's just another quick little story that relevant to
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Speaker 2: Halloween because it involves Jamie Lee Curtis, who you know,
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Speaker 2: the og Scream queen, not the Og the daughter of
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Speaker 2: the Og, I guess, but one of the og Scream queens.
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Speaker 2: In a lot of ways, She's got it. It's genetic,
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Speaker 2: it's in the family. But Jamie Lee Curtis, who was
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Speaker 2: in the Halloween in many of the Halloween movies, not
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Speaker 2: all of them, but many of them, not Halloween three
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Speaker 2: that I'm trying badly to get you to watch, you know,
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Speaker 2: tomorrow or tonight even. But took some grief for comments
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Speaker 2: that she made immediately after Charlie Kirk's assassination and she
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Speaker 2: basically talked about crying over his death, and she has
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Speaker 2: now had to not had to, but has felt like
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Speaker 2: she needed to clarify what she meant. And she was
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Speaker 2: on a podcast I Guess on Mark Marin's podcast I
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Speaker 2: Guess a little while back. I Guess recorded back in September,
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Speaker 2: But she basically felt a need to explain that she
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Speaker 2: disagreed with Charlie Kirk on political things, but she believed
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Speaker 2: him to be a religious person. She says, I mean,
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Speaker 2: I disagreed with him on almost every point ever heard
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Speaker 2: him say, but I believe he was a man of faith,
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Speaker 2: and I hope that in that moment when he died,
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Speaker 2: that he felt connected to his faith. Even though I
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Speaker 2: find what his ideas were abhorrent to me, I still
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Speaker 2: believe he's a father and a husband and a man
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Speaker 2: of faith, and I hope whatever connection to God means
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Speaker 2: that he felt it. And she said that her comments
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Speaker 2: about crying were mistranslated. She says, an excerpt of it
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Speaker 2: mistranslated what I was saying as I wished him well,
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Speaker 2: like I was talking about him in a very positive way,
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Speaker 2: which I wasn't. I was simply talking about his faith
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Speaker 2: in God, and so it was a mistranslation. So this
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Speaker 2: is where she and she this is one more comment
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Speaker 2: on this. She says, in a binary world today, you
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Speaker 2: cannot hold two ideas at the same time. I cannot
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Speaker 2: be Jewish and totally believe in Israel's right to exist
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Speaker 2: and at the same time reject the destruction of Gaza.
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Speaker 2: You can't say that because you get vilified for having
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Speaker 2: a mind. That says, I can hold both of the thoughts.
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Speaker 2: I can be contradictory in that way, and that she says,
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Speaker 2: she's not somebody who's careful, she said. If I was careful,
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have told you any of what I just
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Speaker 2: told you. I would have just said, Hi, welcome, I
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Speaker 2: baked you banana bread. Here's my dog, here's my house,
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Speaker 2: blah blah blah. What do you want to know? I
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Speaker 2: can't not be who I am in the moment that
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Speaker 2: I am, all right, So just quickly digesting a little
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Speaker 2: bit of this, it is pathetic that a human being,
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Speaker 2: whether you agree or disagree, or whatever your thoughts are
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Speaker 2: on anyone's politics, a human being got murdered, assassinated by
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Speaker 2: someone who was carrying out an evil act should make
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Speaker 2: you cry. It absolutely should make you cry. You didn't
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Speaker 2: have to cry, but it should make you cry. It's horrible.
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Speaker 2: And when you find out that his wife and kids
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Speaker 2: were there and they saw it, and if you had
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Speaker 2: the misfortune like I did, of accidentally seeing the sh
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Speaker 2: and his ultimately what led to his death, that also
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Speaker 2: could possibly make you cry. There's so many levels to
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Speaker 2: this that it is horrible. And it doesn't matter if
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Speaker 2: you agree with their politics. You disagree. The only time
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Speaker 2: that you could and you could cry if a horrible
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Speaker 2: human being, who you know, if a person who killed
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Speaker 2: people and then was sentenced to death and then executed.
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Speaker 2: If that makes you cry, that's okay too. It's about life.
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Speaker 2: It's about a human being dying. It's not about supporting them.
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Speaker 2: It's not about supporting what they did. It's not about
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Speaker 2: any of those things. It's really sad that Jamie Lee
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Speaker 2: Curtis had to explain herself to anybody about And I
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Speaker 2: don't agree with Jamie Lee Curtis on a lot of things,
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Speaker 2: but it's really sad that she ever felt like she
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Speaker 2: had to explain herself about any of this. It's okay
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Speaker 2: to be sad when a human being dies. Well, the
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Speaker 2: the break Well. I mentioned inflation and rising costs, and
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Speaker 2: X and boomers. As part of a divorce settlement, a
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