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But, I'm Right, So I Can, Right? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Thursday morning, twenty sixth day of March. I'm Wes, Thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. We kick off the day a couple things.
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Speaker 2: There's a little house cleaning kind of stuff. It kind
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Speaker 2: of all ties into the main thing I want to
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Speaker 2: talk about today. But I do think there's a couple
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Speaker 2: things to lead in with, and it relates to this notion,
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Speaker 2: this idea that we are somehow called or entitled to
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Speaker 2: or supposed to do things based on whether or not
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Speaker 2: we're right. This idea that has kind of taken over
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Speaker 2: in general, or at least it feels that way at
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Speaker 2: least when it comes to social media. How about that?
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Speaker 2: Is that a fair way to put it? That if
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Speaker 2: from a social media standpoint, it's just kind of taken
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Speaker 2: over this this idea, this notion that this is what
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Speaker 2: we're supposed to do because we're right. Now, there is
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Speaker 2: a large sentiment of people that have gotten behind this
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Speaker 2: notion of it's better to be kind than it is
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Speaker 2: to be right, and that's certainly it sounds very you know,
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Speaker 2: hold hands around the campfire, kind of thing. And but
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Speaker 2: I think there's some truth to it when it comes
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Speaker 2: especially to when you're trying to argue with people that
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Speaker 2: you don't know, when you get on social media and
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Speaker 2: you tell everybody that you know, I'm gonna just you know,
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Speaker 2: lob a grenade into a room and see how it goes,
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Speaker 2: and just for the purposes of trying to get other
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Speaker 2: people's blood up or work them up, or whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: I know that if you're just kind of living life
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Speaker 2: by that philosophy all the time, maybe you know, Blessed
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Speaker 2: or the Peacemakers is the better way to put it.
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Speaker 2: And it sounds a little less hand holding around the
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Speaker 2: campfire and a little more grounded in spirituality. You know,
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Speaker 2: you could say that, but this idea that because you
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Speaker 2: were in a place where you feel like I'm right,
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Speaker 2: I know that I'm right. Therefore it's my license to
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Speaker 2: do whatever I want to do. It's my license to
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Speaker 2: go and kill the CEO of a healthcare company if
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Speaker 2: I want to, and people to go, yeah, that's right,
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Speaker 2: get him, or you know, it's okay to murder a
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Speaker 2: guy who's promoting free speech because we don't like the
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Speaker 2: free speech that he himself supports he gives other people
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Speaker 2: the opportunity to speak, but then when he speaks, he
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Speaker 2: makes way too much sense, and we don't like the
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Speaker 2: fact that he might be converting people back to common
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Speaker 2: sense or to I don't know us history. When you
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Speaker 2: really want to get into some of the things that
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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk talked about. He would just say, hey, let's
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Speaker 2: talk about the founding of the country and what the
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Speaker 2: original intentions were. But people feel like, well, I don't
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Speaker 2: like what he said, and because I know that whatever
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Speaker 2: I say is you know, right, and that I'm on
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Speaker 2: the right side of history. Therefore, you can't tell me
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Speaker 2: that I shouldn't act in some way, because you know
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Speaker 2: that's the appropriate thing to do when you're right. There's
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Speaker 2: a couple stories that kind of relate to that, and
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Speaker 2: you know, I can't go specifically into the mindset of
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Speaker 2: both of these people because you know, we don't know
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Speaker 2: exactly what was going on, but they're there. You know,
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Speaker 2: one story is more horrible than the other, and I
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Speaker 2: want to start with that one. And this is it
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Speaker 2: happened in Utah and Provo, Utah. And this story is
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Speaker 2: starting to make its rounds on social media. But it's
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Speaker 2: a forty year old woman. Her name is Shannonterfugo. And
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Speaker 2: I guess. According to the story and according to the charges,
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Speaker 2: according to prosecutors, her son had a bully and she
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Speaker 2: decided that the best thing to do. Again, I guess
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Speaker 2: because she's in the right, because you shouldn't let someone
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Speaker 2: bully your son. So apparently this kid was out riding
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Speaker 2: his bike the bully and she he stopped in front
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Speaker 2: of his car. This is according to the criminal complaint,
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Speaker 2: forced the kid to get in the car, and they
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Speaker 2: say she then took him to her house without the
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Speaker 2: permission of the parents, effectively, you know, kidnapping him, right,
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Speaker 2: and took him to her house, made him apologize to
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Speaker 2: her son, threatened that her husband would beat him up.
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Speaker 2: The complaint also says that she told the boy he
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Speaker 2: was lucky she didn't run over him run over his bike,
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Speaker 2: and then she later took him back home. Prosecutors say
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Speaker 2: that the incident caused significant emotional distress and lasting anxiety.
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Speaker 2: She's charged with kidnapping, aggravated child abuse, second degree felonies,
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Speaker 2: up to fifteen years in prison if convicted. And I
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Speaker 2: guess this was months ago when this happened, and it's
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Speaker 2: now coming around where charges are being brought up. So
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Speaker 2: I put this in this category of people who think
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Speaker 2: that they're in the right because of course you're standing
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Speaker 2: up for your child, you're standing up against a bully,
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Speaker 2: and this is one of those things that we do,
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Speaker 2: you know, we hear of an injustice and we want
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Speaker 2: to correct it and we want to fix it. The
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Speaker 2: problem is we're being told constantly on social media and
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Speaker 2: in mainstream media and in these circles of people who
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Speaker 2: think that we're in this constant state of revolution in
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Speaker 2: this country, that you got to act. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: of ways you could handle this with a bully kidnapping
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Speaker 2: the kid that is not one of them, murdering Charlie Kirk,
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Speaker 2: not one of them, murdering the CEO of a healthcare company,
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Speaker 2: not one of them. And I realize it's a big
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Speaker 2: leak to even connect these things, but I think there
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Speaker 2: is some connection to this mindset that we're allowed to
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Speaker 2: do things just based on the fact that you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm right. Here's another one more of a reach than
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Speaker 2: even that. But still I just think, because this is
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Speaker 2: again a story that's gone viral, and so actor Alan Richson.
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Speaker 2: He plays Reacher on the Fantastic series Reacher on Amazon Prime.
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Speaker 2: And he's done some movies, He's done some TV shows.
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Speaker 2: He was on Smallville for he was Aquaman basically on Smallville.
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Speaker 2: So Alan Richson, he's a big guy. First of all,
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Speaker 2: Just to put in perspective, this is a mountain of
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Speaker 2: a human being. You know, he looks like he's ninety
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Speaker 2: eight percent muscle. I mean, this is not someone that
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Speaker 2: you just walk up to and start a fight with.
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Speaker 2: But apparently someone decided to. So this is in Tennessee
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Speaker 2: and Brentwood and I and the update on this is
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Speaker 2: that no charges are going to be filed against Alan
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Speaker 2: Richon because it was a self defense situation. But there
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Speaker 2: was a neighbor, someone who lived in the area decided
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Speaker 2: to step in front of Alan Richson riding on his motorcycle,
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Speaker 2: I think with his kids. The neighbor decided that Richmond
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Speaker 2: was driving too fast on his motorcycle in the neighborhood
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Speaker 2: and there's kids in this neighborhood, so he stepped in
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Speaker 2: front of the motorcycle. And you can see this on
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Speaker 2: the bodycam or I don't know if it's bodycam or
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Speaker 2: if it's just a go pro mounted on his motorcycle,
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Speaker 2: but I think it's a bodycam. But Richon put that out.
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Speaker 2: I guess that was on his social media. But this
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Speaker 2: guy steps in front of the motorcycle, gets him to stop,
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Speaker 2: and then pushes Richon on the motorcycle a couple times,
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Speaker 2: and Richmon proceeds to do what a mountain of a
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Speaker 2: human being would do if you're threatened, and just kind
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Speaker 2: of pounds on the guy a little bit. People saw
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Speaker 2: that footage that was released, I guess by some of
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Speaker 2: the media outlets that want to rush to the story
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Speaker 2: because you want to get the story out before you
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Speaker 2: get all the facts. That's the way journalism works, right,
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Speaker 2: But it's this culture that we've created where you have
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Speaker 2: to say, oh no, no, look we got the story
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Speaker 2: out first before everybody else. And there were a number
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Speaker 2: of outlets Entertainment Tonight and others sort of painted this
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Speaker 2: is look at Alan Richmond beating up on this guy.
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Speaker 2: Here's photos of the guy with black eyes and all
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Speaker 2: banged up. But basically you can see, thankfully for Alan Richson,
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Speaker 2: he was wearing some kind of camera, had some kind
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Speaker 2: of camera on him. Because you can see that this
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Speaker 2: started with the other gentleman. Now again, why would you
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Speaker 2: step in front of him? Why would you step in
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Speaker 2: front of a motorcycle and stop it so that you
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Speaker 2: can go? You shouldn't be doing that. Now, you could
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Speaker 2: make a case maybe a I was trying to cause
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Speaker 2: a problem and hoping to get beat up and hoping.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Alan Richan has some money. I mean he
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Speaker 2: doesn't have Tom Cruise money, you know. Sorry, just a
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Speaker 2: Reacher connection there. But my point is I don't know
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Speaker 2: what his motivation was. I just think we have this
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Speaker 2: culture now of people that think that they're supposed to
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Speaker 2: step in and do something and act and it's kind
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Speaker 2: of absurd. All right, That's it, And I know it's
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Speaker 2: a reach. There's not the same thing, but I think
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Speaker 2: there is that little bit of a like if you're
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Speaker 2: on the tree of self righteousness, I think some of
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Speaker 2: these things kind of fit into that. That's all I'm
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Speaker 2: getting at all right. The thing I really want to
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Speaker 2: talk about today is as people are screaming like, why
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Speaker 2: can't we get the TSA back to work? And it's
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Speaker 2: Project twenty twenty five says, is why they won't let
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Speaker 2: the TSA go back to work? First of all, TSA
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Speaker 2: is not going back to work because Democrats have said,
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Speaker 2: we're not signing anything, We're not going to get things
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Speaker 2: passed and get approved for them to get paid. And
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Speaker 2: I say back to work. Some of them are working.
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Speaker 2: Some of them are selling plasma and things, just so
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Speaker 2: that they can continue to go to work, hoping that
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Speaker 2: when this you know they're gonna get paid eventually. But
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Speaker 2: you have Democrats that are saying, we're not gonna prove it,
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Speaker 2: We're gonna let them suffer because we want this to
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Speaker 2: help us in the midterms. Like we've talked about when
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Speaker 2: there's riots, this is about midterms. When there's protests that
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Speaker 2: turn violent, that's what this is about. It's about the
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Speaker 2: midterms and making Americans suffer. They want to try to
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Speaker 2: use their ends with various media outlets to carry the
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Speaker 2: water for them and say look at what Republicans are doing.
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Speaker 2: This whole situation was flipped just a few years ago,
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Speaker 2: and it was Democrats that were offering here, you go
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Speaker 2: sign it, and Republicans wouldn't sign it. And you had
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Speaker 2: folks on the left going, we've been trying to get
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Speaker 2: them to sign it and they just won't sign it.
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Speaker 2: That's a Republicans trying to make you suffer. Now it's
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Speaker 2: the other way, and it's like they're offering a stuff,
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Speaker 2: but it's not what the American people want. You know
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Speaker 2: what they're fighting about. You know what the current like
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Speaker 2: situation is. The thing that they want Republicans to cave
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Speaker 2: on so that the TSA people can get paid and
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Speaker 2: that Americans can stop suffering. Is they're squabbling over Ice
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Speaker 2: agents wearing masks. We have a contingency of people in
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Speaker 2: this country, and it's not all Democrats, but Democrats are
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Speaker 2: the party that's you know, drawing the line in the
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Speaker 2: sand on this issue right now. But we have a
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Speaker 2: contingency of people in the country who want so badly,
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Speaker 2: so badly to be able to dos the Ice agents.
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Speaker 2: They want to be able to say, we're going to
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Speaker 2: send people to your house if you're an ICE agent,
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Speaker 2: and we're gonna harass your family, We're gonna set your
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Speaker 2: house on fire, We're gonna throw Molotov cocktails. Because we're angry,
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Speaker 2: we're just expressing ourselves. We want to hurt you, we
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Speaker 2: want to threaten you. We want to be able to
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Speaker 2: lean on you if we don't like what you're doing,
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Speaker 2: if you're causing some conflict to our grand plan of
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Speaker 2: just planning people in the country in certain places and
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Speaker 2: getting more representation and all that. We want to expose
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Speaker 2: who you are so that we can harass you, or
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Speaker 2: we can let our people get out and do it.
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Speaker 2: We can send our people out to go after you.
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Speaker 2: They want that so badly. Take the masks off. We
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Speaker 2: want the masks off. Remember just a few like it was,
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Speaker 2: you know, six years ago, I mean exactly six years ago,
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Speaker 2: they were telling us put those masks on, put them on.
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Speaker 2: Mask up. There's still people, by the way that wear
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Speaker 2: masks when they go in the bank, a place where
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Speaker 2: you should not be wearing a mask. I can't think
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Speaker 2: of a single circumstance at all where someone going into
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Speaker 2: a bank wearing a mask is a good thing, you know,
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Speaker 2: unless they've shut the bank down and I made it
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Speaker 2: a temporary, you know, quarantine hospital. All right, you got
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Speaker 2: me on that, twist my arm. I'll give you that.
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Speaker 2: That's the one time they've taken all the money out.
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Speaker 2: There's no money in the bank, and they're using the
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Speaker 2: bank like little house on the Prairie style. They're using
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Speaker 2: the bank. They did finally build a bank, didn't they
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Speaker 2: they're using the bank as a hospital and they're quarantining
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Speaker 2: because you know, people have the scarlet fever and they
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Speaker 2: got to do it. That's the only time I would
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Speaker 2: think wrapping something around your face would be justified in
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Speaker 2: a bank. And these were people screaming. Put masks on.
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Speaker 2: Put them on. We want people to still be able
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Speaker 2: to wear them out in public if they're more comfortable
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Speaker 2: with it. Your law enforcement and you're trying to catch
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Speaker 2: people and you don't want people to dox you and
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Speaker 2: threaten your family, No, take the mask off. Take it off.
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Speaker 2: You shouldn't wearing it. That's why. That's why along waits
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Speaker 2: at the TSA. That's why people are living in their
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Speaker 2: cars outside the airports so that they don't have to
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Speaker 2: use gas to go back and forth to work. That's why.
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Speaker 2: Because they want to be able to doxs and harass
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Speaker 2: ice agents. That's it. That's the reason. So if there's
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Speaker 2: a loved one in your life, it works for the
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Speaker 2: TSA and they're not getting paid and they're struggling. Just no,
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Speaker 2: that's ultimately the reason. Right now, And I also want
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Speaker 2: to address this because we've been hearing oh, this is
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Speaker 2: all part of the Project twenty twenty five. Project twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five was just meant to be the scary thing
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Speaker 2: during the election for people to scream and say, oh,
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Speaker 2: this is this is Trump's plan. I don't for a
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Speaker 2: minute ever believe this was anything to do with Trump's plan.
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Speaker 2: Project twenty twenty five was this, you know, set of
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Speaker 2: ideal scenarios for some conservatives to say, this is what
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Speaker 2: we would like to see happen. But Trump, you know,
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Speaker 2: said I haven't even read it. That's not our like philosophy,
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Speaker 2: that's not what we're doing. But and I know people
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Speaker 2: who still say, ah, see, here's another thing that happened
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Speaker 2: in Project twenty twenty five. It's proof that this was
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Speaker 2: always the grand plan. And I don't for a minute
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Speaker 2: believe that. But here's the thing. Suppose Project twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: five somewhere in it just said, you know, breathing oxygen
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Speaker 2: is good for you, if that's in there somewhere, and
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Speaker 2: then one day a doctor says, you know, breathing oxygen
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Speaker 2: is good for you. You know, these are the people
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Speaker 2: that would go, see, it's in there. This is another thing.
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Speaker 2: This is another thing. But you know, just because it's
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Speaker 2: in there. Even if you don't like all of it,
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Speaker 2: even if you don't like eighty percent of it, if
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Speaker 2: it's in the twenty percent, that is just probably a
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Speaker 2: good idea that doesn't make the whole thing something that's
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Speaker 2: being implemented. And the thing in Project twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 2: if you've seen people say, oh my gosh, this is
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Speaker 2: what they're trying to do. Look what's happening with the TSA.
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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna paraphrase it, but probably twenty twenty five
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Speaker 2: basically says TSA shouldn't be paid by the government anyway.
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Speaker 2: It should be privatized. It should be a private company.
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Speaker 2: And guess what if it was, none of this stuff
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Speaker 2: would be happening right now. It would be through a
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Speaker 2: private company. The government wouldn't be paying for it, they
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Speaker 2: wouldn't be funding it. It wouldn't even be part of
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Speaker 2: this negotiation. There's a lot of things that the federal
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Speaker 2: government covers that we pay taxes that help cover it,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of conservatives believe, hey, that's too big
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Speaker 2: of a government. We don't need that, and this discussion
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Speaker 2: would be over if that was the case. And they
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Speaker 2: even say in it, you know, if the government needs
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Speaker 2: to be involved in it, it should probably be more
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Speaker 2: you know, customs, border patrol, ice, whatever, which is what
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Speaker 2: they've had to kind of fill in in certain places
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Speaker 2: to help out. See, that's what they That's what they
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Speaker 2: wanted Project twenty twenty five. Take there, This was the
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Speaker 2: plan all along. They've been lying to you. No, sometimes
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Speaker 2: oxygen's just good for you. You should breathe it in.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't necessarily mean everything else. If I gave you a
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Speaker 2: list of three things and it was like, oxygen's good
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Speaker 2: for you, and you know, eating spaghetti can be a
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Speaker 2: delicious meal, and then you know, I don't know, Hitler
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Speaker 2: is good. If those were the three things that were
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Speaker 2: in a list, and you went, well, you believe that
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Speaker 2: oxygen is good for you and that spaghetti can be
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Speaker 2: a good dinner. Therefore you must believe. And this thing
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Speaker 2: about Hitler, No, I'm not even comparing Brody twenty five
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Speaker 2: to anybody saying Hitler is good. That's not in there.
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Speaker 2: I'm just making the point that just because there's some
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Speaker 2: absurdity in the list doesn't mean that the positive and
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Speaker 2: real things in the list can't also be true. You
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Speaker 2: can't just go, well, we're going to just eliminate this
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Speaker 2: whole list. Oxygen can't be good for you if it's
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Speaker 2: in a list that has that other thing, It's not possible.
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Speaker 2: And I'll also make the case that pickles with your
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Speaker 2: spaghetti dinner is a nice touch. You should really try it.
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Speaker 2: right after the break. So is it morally wrong to
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Speaker 2: have a billion dollars? That's been a discussion that's been
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Speaker 2: floating around for a while, like is there too much
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Speaker 2: money that you can have? And it just become absurd
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Speaker 2: and ridiculous. Now, while I understand the idea of having
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Speaker 2: a billion dollars is something most of us can't comprehend
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Speaker 2: and we think, oh, that's just way too much money,
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Speaker 2: way too much money. But if someone has earned a
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Speaker 2: billion dollars, you know, so be it. You know, many
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Speaker 2: people have that philosophy. They've earned it, it's their money,
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Speaker 2: they should have it. So the question and becomes is
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Speaker 2: there a morality clause to it? And some people have
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Speaker 2: discussed this and debated it, and I would certainly think
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Speaker 2: that if someone is taking a billion dollars and using
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Speaker 2: a lot of it to fund research or you know,
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Speaker 2: help cure diseases or I don't know, have a company
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Speaker 2: that supports free speech and figured out how to make
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Speaker 2: electric cars work, and also you know, sustainability when it
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Speaker 2: comes to launching rockets, providing Internet connection to country that
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Speaker 2: don't have it, working on microchips to help paraplegics and
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Speaker 2: people that you know have had these horrible spine disorders
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Speaker 2: and diseases and injuries. And I know that's like the
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Speaker 2: main one that a lot of these people that talk
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Speaker 2: about the morality of it, they hate that guy the
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Speaker 2: most because you know, he helped Trump win the presidency
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Speaker 2: and messed up their whole thing they had going with
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Speaker 2: Twitter and they got to do Blue Sky, which is
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Speaker 2: really lame. But you know, it's a discussion that people
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Speaker 2: have been having. And there's a survey that was done
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Speaker 2: where they asked thousands of American adults about whether being
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Speaker 2: extremely wealthy can be morally wrong and the answer is
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Speaker 2: basically break down by age eighteen to twenty nine year olds,
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Speaker 2: about a third of them say that billionaire wealth crosses
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Speaker 2: a moral line, and that's the highest of any of
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Speaker 2: the age groups. As you go up a little bit older,
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Speaker 2: the number drops pretty quickly. About twenty percent of people
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Speaker 2: in their thirties and forties feel that way. At about
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Speaker 2: ten percent of adults over fifty think that extreme wealth
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Speaker 2: is morally wrong. My biggest issue with extreme wealth comes
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Speaker 2: down to the people who say, I'm giving away all
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Speaker 2: of my wealth. I'm gonna do that because I shouldn't
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Speaker 2: have it, and then ten years later there's still one
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Speaker 2: of the five richest people in the country, and you go,
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Speaker 2: I thought you were giving that away. When are you
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Speaker 2: gonna give it away when you're dead. That's not difficult
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Speaker 2: to do. It's a lot easier to give away a
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Speaker 2: billion dollars when you're dead. It's really really easy to
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Speaker 2: do that, you know. I mean, you got some people
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Speaker 2: who don't like it because they pass it on to
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Speaker 2: their kids. But if you're just going, I'm going to
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Speaker 2: give it all to charity when I'm dead, that's different.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot easier to do it. I mean, don't
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Speaker 2: get me wrong, it's their money. Do whatever you want
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Speaker 2: to do with it. Just don't come all high and
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Speaker 2: mighty at me and go I'm going to give it
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Speaker 2: all away and then you do it after you die.
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Speaker 2: That's that's that's cheating. Lots of people dream of owning
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Speaker 2: a big house on a big property, but would you
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Speaker 2: be willing to do it if you had to live,
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Speaker 2: you know, far away from everything? And that's ultimately the
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Speaker 2: dilemma there, isn't it. A new Pew Research Center survey
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Speaker 2: shows Americans still lean towards wide open living about fifty
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Speaker 2: five percent of adults, so they prefer communities with larger
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Speaker 2: homes space farther apart, even if that means having to
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Speaker 2: drive several miles to school, stores and restaurants. About forty
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Speaker 2: four percent favors smaller homes and walkable neighborhoods. That preference
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Speaker 2: for more spread out living is nearly unchanged from a
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Speaker 2: year ago, though it has dipped slightly from the height
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Speaker 2: of the pandemic. About sixty percent of Americans back then
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Speaker 2: said they would rather have more space. Well, that's because
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Speaker 2: they were spread out. Six feet got to be six
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Speaker 2: feet apart. Put on your mask unless you're a nice agent.
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Speaker 2: But these housing preferences very across different groups. Gen Z
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Speaker 2: prefers where they can walk to things, as opposed to
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Speaker 2: older generations who say they just prefer more space. And
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Speaker 2: I think older you get, the less walk in you
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Speaker 2: want to do, You're more likely to walk, though you'll
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Speaker 2: go walk around in the mall. You don't want to
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Speaker 2: have to walk to the store. Who wants to do that?
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Speaker 2: Get in the car, might even, you know, stop at
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Speaker 2: two or three stores if you're in the car. You've
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Speaker 2: ever been in a conversation and stuck in it and
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Speaker 2: the other person is just talking more than you. Conversational
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Speaker 2: narcissism is what they call it when one person quietly
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Speaker 2: turns a back and forth into a big solo performance.
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Speaker 2: I know some of these people. I got one person
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Speaker 2: in mind. I'm picturing their face right now and remembering
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Speaker 2: every conversation I've had with them that goes that way.
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Speaker 2: It turns into basically, yeah, like a one act play.
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Speaker 2: Healthy conversation is just basically catch back and forth, toss
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Speaker 2: something out, they toss something back. Conversational narcissists catches the
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Speaker 2: ball and then runs away with it. So just know
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Speaker 2: that that's a thing. If you feel like it's happening,
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Speaker 2: just know it is really a thing, and that they
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Speaker 2: probably aren't necessarily trying to be awful. It comes from
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Speaker 2: insecurity or fear of awkward pauses, or impulse control. They're
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Speaker 2: worried maybe what you're going to ask them. Some of
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Speaker 2: these things are part of that, So just kind of
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Speaker 2: keep that in mind. It's probably not about you necessarily,
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Speaker 2: it's just about them. That'll do it for this Thursday
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