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One Week to Go · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start
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Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to the Wes Carroll Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, 27th day of October. I'm Wes.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining me. We are another day into Halloween week.
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Speaker 3: Zipping right along, aren't we? Just zipping.
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Speaker 2: Right along.
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Speaker 3: Uh, it, we are a week before the, uh, midterm
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Speaker 3: election day. Many did their early voting, I guess, record numbers.
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Speaker 3: I know in Georgia, or that's what I've heard. I
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Speaker 3: assume they're shooting us straight. Did you get the thing
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Speaker 3: in the mail that told you that, uh, in Georgia
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Speaker 3: that tells you that, uh, if you vote early, then
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Speaker 3: they will stop, uh, calling your house and sending you
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Speaker 3: mail and, and all that text messages. Um, I think
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Speaker 3: maybe the calls to my house might have stopped. The
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Speaker 3: ones to my cell phone have definitely not stopped. Although
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Speaker 3: maybe those in their defense, maybe those are just polling
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Speaker 3: calls and they may not be the calls from the
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Speaker 3: specific campaigns. I am definitely still getting text messages from campaigns,
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Speaker 3: but I don't, I don't know how quick the turnaround
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Speaker 3: is on that. It seemed like a weird piece of
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Speaker 3: mail to send out. Like, you know, if you vote early,
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Speaker 3: I know it's a push for people to vote early,
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Speaker 3: but it basically is like, you know, if you vote early,
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Speaker 3: at least.
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Speaker 2: People are going to leave you alone.
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Speaker 3: And I didn't vote super early at a specific, I
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Speaker 3: mentioned why we waited until the 23rd to vote early.
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Speaker 2: Because that was going to.
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Speaker 3: Be the day that we voted with Jake on his
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Speaker 3: birthday for his first time voting. But everyone in our
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Speaker 3: house who's able to vote legally has voted, so we
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Speaker 3: should all be off of all of the lists. I
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Speaker 3: suppose he'll get a good taste in two years for
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Speaker 3: the next go-round for adding the.
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Speaker 2: Text messages and calls and things to his phone. And email.
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Speaker 2: And email. It's everywhere.
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Speaker 3: And they haven't really backed off at all. So I
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Speaker 3: don't really know what that was. But it was an
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Speaker 3: interesting strategy to get people to vote early, I guess.
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Speaker 3: One of the big questions that we face a week
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Speaker 3: from today is how late will they keep Fulton County
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Speaker 3: open in Georgia? And what will the excuse be this year?
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Speaker 3: I'm not into these gambling apps anymore. You know, I
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Speaker 3: don't do those things. I'm not, you know, occasionally I
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Speaker 3: can buy a lottery ticket. I always try to tell
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Speaker 3: my kids, like, we're buying a lottery ticket. This is just,
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Speaker 3: we're buying the opportunity to just imagine what we could
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Speaker 3: do to help people and, you know, what we could
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Speaker 3: do if we won.
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Speaker 2: Imagine what we could do with it. And that's it.
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Speaker 2: That's all you're doing. You're buying that.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, you're almost certainly not going to win,
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Speaker 3: but you're saying there's a chance. But I don't do
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Speaker 3: any of those gambling things. And I think all the
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Speaker 3: sports gambling is making sports worse. It's making me, I
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Speaker 3: would say just when I thought I was ready to
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Speaker 3: give up on sports, then my NFL team suddenly is
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Speaker 3: showing some signs of hope in life. So it's difficult,
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Speaker 3: the Giants. It's difficult for me to just go, I'm
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Speaker 3: going to give up on that. But then there's these
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Speaker 3: moments during the games where you just go, that call
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Speaker 3: is so bad. It just feels like, Somebody's in someone's
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Speaker 3: ear going, we got to protect everything.
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Speaker 2: For Vegas.
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Speaker 3: Not just to help Vegas win, but just like you
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Speaker 3: got to have this where you're like, well, you can't
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Speaker 3: have a receiving touchdown. It's got to be a rushing touchdown.
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Speaker 3: So we can put the ball on the one, even
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Speaker 3: though clearly they got in the end zone. And for
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Speaker 3: some reason, the coach isn't even complaining. Like they have
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Speaker 3: those or weird, you know, Pass interference or roughing the
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Speaker 3: passer calls. I think the pass interference ones are pretty common.
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Speaker 3: It's been going on for a long time. But like
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Speaker 3: a weird roughing the passer. Like what happened in the
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Speaker 3: Packers-Lions game. Like a weird roughing the passer call. Cam Scadaboo,
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Speaker 3: running back for the Giants, got a penalty for running
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Speaker 3: into people too hard as a running back or something.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: He put his head down and they said he wasn't
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Speaker 3: supposed to do that. I'm sure that's a rule. I
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Speaker 3: just haven't seen it called. Why are they just now
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Speaker 3: calling it? Because he just runs really hard. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: And last season, by the way, there is still a
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Speaker 3: rule in the NFL against hip drop tackles. He broke
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Speaker 3: his leg on a play where he was tackled with
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Speaker 3: a hip drop tackle.
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Speaker 2: Nothing. No call, no nothing.
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Speaker 3: So there's certain rules that maybe they could use them
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Speaker 3: if they decide they want to.
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Speaker 2: Just a weird.
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Speaker 3: but I'm not into these apps is what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: I'm not, I'm not into the gambling apps. I don't,
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Speaker 3: I don't do any of that stuff that that's not, uh,
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Speaker 3: what I do. Uh, I do like the one that
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Speaker 3: Sydney Sweeney advertises, but I don't, I don't, I don't
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Speaker 3: gamble with it. I just, you know, the ads are good.
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Speaker 2: That's all.
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Speaker 3: Um, And that's what that's for, by the way. If
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Speaker 3: you've seen those ads and you've just gone, what am
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Speaker 3: I looking at?
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Speaker 2: Good gravy. You know, if you're doing that or my
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Speaker 2: dad would always go, good goobity goo. That's a good
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Speaker 2: use for that expression. But that's what it's for.
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Speaker 3: It's a company that does these gambling. It's a gambling
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Speaker 3: thing and specifically sports gambling. And that's why the ads
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Speaker 3: are like just sports. Like she's not wearing anything but sports.
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Speaker 3: That's the reason for the ad. But anyway, and she's
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Speaker 3: also a partial owner of that. That's how she's gotten
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Speaker 3: paid is she's an investor into it in that regard,
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Speaker 3: like a sweat equity. It's hard to sweat when you're
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Speaker 3: not wearing anything. What was I talking about? Oh, yeah,
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Speaker 3: the gambling thing. I would think that they could do
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Speaker 3: we could do some kind of a line on what
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Speaker 3: ridiculous excuse will the state of Georgia, will the people
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Speaker 3: in Fulton County have in the state of Georgia to
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Speaker 3: to keep the voting open as late as possible on
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Speaker 3: Tuesday next week. They always come up with a reason.
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Speaker 3: It's like, oh, a pipe burst and, you know, a
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Speaker 3: toilet overflowed or the power went out. There was a
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Speaker 3: horrible traffic accident right outside the door or something. And
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Speaker 3: then the pipe thing didn't even end up being a thing.
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Speaker 3: So they never really explained why.
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Speaker 2: They kept them open.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we know the reason that they keep them
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Speaker 3: open late is because they can go out and Once
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Speaker 3: everybody's turned in, not that I'm a conspiracy guy, but
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Speaker 3: let's be honest. If you're telling me that the other
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Speaker 3: counties turn in their numbers and then everybody's turned them
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Speaker 3: in and Fulton County just every time has to stay
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Speaker 3: open late and they just happen to know kind of
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Speaker 3: the results in all the other counties and then mysteriously
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Speaker 3: they sometimes seem to get exactly how many votes they
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Speaker 3: need to win whatever it is they're trying to win
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Speaker 3: in the state. But that sounds very conspiracy-esque. I'm pointing
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Speaker 3: out that that's a complete coincidence. It's not a conspiracy.
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Speaker 3: It just happens sometimes. So whatever it's... I mean, allegedly
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Speaker 3: it happens sometimes. So what will the excuse be to
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Speaker 3: keep it open? I don't even know that you can
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Speaker 3: bet on will they keep it open late, because they will.
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Speaker 3: Unless this is one of those, you know, like cleansing
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Speaker 3: the palate, and you have to not do it.
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Speaker 2: But I just feel like with the governor's race....
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Speaker 3: And there's a few other ones, but, you know, the
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Speaker 3: Senate race, I think that I don't know how tight
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Speaker 3: the Senate race is, to be honest, but the governor's
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Speaker 3: race could be tight if people have decided that, you know,
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Speaker 3: they don't like the prosperity we've enjoyed with our time
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Speaker 3: with Governor Kemp and someone who Kemp is endorsing and
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Speaker 3: saying he can continue on what we've been doing. if
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Speaker 3: everybody decides, no, no, no, we want the lady that
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Speaker 3: was in Atlanta and let the city burn quite a
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Speaker 3: few times to be the governor, then, you know, this
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Speaker 3: is a weird time.
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Speaker 2: That's all I'm getting at.
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Speaker 3: We got a week until election day, and it's a
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Speaker 3: weird time. And I know we have these periods that
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Speaker 3: come through where we say, boy, things have gotten weird,
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Speaker 3: and then they get weirder, and then they get weirder.
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Speaker 3: And if you don't, you know, need a, you know,
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Speaker 3: A member of the House of Representatives who had their
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Speaker 3: house raided and may or may not be living under
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Speaker 3: an alias, may or may not have actually been married
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Speaker 3: to her brother or relative, may or may not have
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Speaker 3: had her birth certificate.
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Speaker 2: Well, she doesn't have a birth certificate. That's the problem there.
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Speaker 3: But may or may not have changed her birth date
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Speaker 3: so that she could be a minor instead of an adult.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: And the fact that all of that is going on,
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Speaker 3: that's pretty weird. That's a weird place to be with
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Speaker 3: a week or at the time a couple of weeks
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Speaker 3: to Election Day. It's also pretty weird, if you really
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Speaker 3: want to get into it, that the president, In the
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Speaker 3: midst of everything going on, coming up on this election day,
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Speaker 3: decided to fire off a giant message on Truth Social
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Speaker 3: to attack Bill Maher.
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Speaker 2: So random. So random.
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Speaker 3: And I guess because Caroline Leavitt, the former press secretary,
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Speaker 3: was on his show over the weekend and Trump decided
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Speaker 3: to fire off this giant 1,300 word or what it was.
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Speaker 2: It was something ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: I think it was 1,300.
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Speaker 2: Like attack on Bill Maher.
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Speaker 3: And it makes no sense. Why would you even do this?
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Speaker 3: What is the purpose in this huge message about Bill Maher?
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Speaker 3: First of all, conservatives, for the most part, aren't watching.
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Speaker 2: More than 1,300. I had to check.
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Speaker 3: Conservatives, like your base, the people on Truth Social, probably
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Speaker 3: aren't watching Bill Maher anyway. They might have tuned in
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Speaker 3: for the Caroline Leavitt. I don't even know that they
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Speaker 3: would have done that. And for the second time, Trump
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Speaker 3: had Bill Maher at the White House.
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Speaker 2: Stephen A.
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Speaker 3: Smith was there. I think Kid Rock maybe was there. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, Maher took a lot of grief for going
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Speaker 3: and meeting with Trump the first time. And a lot
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Speaker 3: of the base on the left basically said, decided he
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Speaker 3: was garbage i mean it was i think probably he
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Speaker 3: doesn't he says he doesn't do social media so he
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Speaker 3: doesn't care uh but he took a lot of flack
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Speaker 3: i think personally from people that gave him a hard
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Speaker 3: time he does another he does a podcast where he
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Speaker 3: just talks not necessarily about politics he's just talking about
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Speaker 3: other things with people and he's had people he had
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Speaker 3: charlie kirk on that and i think he had jd
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Speaker 3: vance on there and he has a lot of different
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Speaker 3: people on there Which I think is to be commended.
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Speaker 3: I'm not a Bill Maher fan by any means, but
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Speaker 3: I think it is to be commended that he's talking
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Speaker 3: to other people and acknowledging people like Charlie Kirk who
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Speaker 3: will talk to other people. And I think that's a
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Speaker 3: great place to be for the country is to have
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Speaker 3: people that will do that, somebody that is on the left.
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Speaker 3: Maher has famously said that his vote in the next
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Speaker 3: presidential election is not locked into Democrats because he doesn't
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Speaker 3: like where they are. on things like communism and the
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Speaker 3: extremists that have taken over the party. So he has
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Speaker 3: said he would consider voting for J.D. Vance in two years.
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Speaker 3: And then here's Trump a week, a little more than
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Speaker 3: a week from election day, just this angry rant about
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Speaker 3: what a loser Bill Maher is and how he smoked
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Speaker 3: too much pot and he was drinking alcohol in the
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Speaker 3: White House that was, I guess, surfed to him. I
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Speaker 3: don't think he brought a flask in there. Maybe he did,
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Speaker 3: but that seems like a weird thing to be able
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Speaker 3: to get through security. Although during the last administration, someone, uh,
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Speaker 3: got cocaine in there, you know? So, uh, anyway, so,
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Speaker 3: but I mean, you probably have to be related, you know,
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Speaker 3: you'd probably have to say like, Hey dad, can I
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Speaker 3: bring this in? Like you might have to do that
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Speaker 3: to get it in. I mean, I'm not saying exactly
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Speaker 3: who it belonged to or who it might've belonged to, but.
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Speaker 2: The point is, weird. That's weird.
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Speaker 3: It's a weird place to be considering he could have
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Speaker 3: waited until after. Because I don't expect Bill Maher to
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Speaker 3: be supportive of Trump, but I do think that he's
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Speaker 3: probably a little bit anti-extremist. I don't think he's voting
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Speaker 3: for some of these candidates, or not supporting some of
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Speaker 3: these candidates, I should say, that are extreme.
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Speaker 2: In these races. But anyway.
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Speaker 3: So you got both of those things that are going on.
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Speaker 3: And then you've got this report that basically says that. Oh,
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Speaker 3: and then the Ilhan Omar thing, by the way, she's,
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Speaker 3: I guess, in the midst of like, oh, I'm going
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Speaker 3: to have a have a campaign rally in Minnesota for
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Speaker 3: with Hassan Piker and Democrats going, why would you do that?
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Speaker 3: Don't go out in public with that guy. It's too
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Speaker 3: close to Election Day.
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Speaker 2: What are you doing? And then on top of all
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Speaker 2: of that.
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Speaker 3: Then there's this report that I guess in Pennsylvania, there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of voters in Pennsylvania that are basically saying, look,
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Speaker 3: we don't like Trump and we don't like the Democrats,
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Speaker 3: but that's where we voted before. So we're going to
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Speaker 3: vote for them because even though our party's been hijacked
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Speaker 3: and even though we can't stand what they're doing right now, Uh,
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Speaker 3: we still think that's the best thing to do is just,
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Speaker 3: we just don't like Trump that much. So they think
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Speaker 3: Trump has taken us down a bad path. And then
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Speaker 3: all of the things that they say Trump is doing wrong, uh,
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Speaker 3: or is all like basically rollover from the previous administration
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Speaker 3: and all things that he, that the Biden administration was doing.
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Speaker 3: And I won't even say Biden was doing it. Cause
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Speaker 3: we know asleep at the wheel, uh, literally Ambien choked
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Speaker 3: in according to his son, Hunter, um, who would be
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Speaker 3: someone who would call him dad. And he even said,
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Speaker 3: you know, they make him take Ambien. They were forcing
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Speaker 3: him to take Ambien before.
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Speaker 2: That debate that he did so badly. So it.
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Speaker 3: Wasn't him, but whoever was running things, you know, just
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Speaker 3: a few years ago. That's the things that they're critical
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Speaker 3: of Trump for, making gas prices go up and inflation
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Speaker 3: and all these things.
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Speaker 2: But they're quite content. They're open about it.
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Speaker 3: We don't like the Democrats, but that's where we're going
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Speaker 3: to vote because that's what we're supposed to do.
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Speaker 2: They're comfortable with that.
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Speaker 3: And there's a lot of people in Pennsylvania specifically that
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Speaker 3: are saying that. In a couple of battleground states, there's
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Speaker 3: people doing it.
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Speaker 2: And that's not a surprise.
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Speaker 3: It's just weird when people just kind of are so
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Speaker 3: comfortable saying it out loud. So what's the next week
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Speaker 3: look like? I mean, we got a week. And I
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Speaker 3: Halloween week continues on, and this is kind of interesting.
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Speaker 3: As much as we don't typically talk about Stephen King
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Speaker 3: other than, you know, when he rears his head to
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Speaker 3: chime in on politics for some reason. But this week,
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Speaker 3: it's kind of worth thinking about some of Stephen King's works, right?
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Speaker 3: And apparently, he was promoting a new novel called Other
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Speaker 3: Worlds Than These. And during an interview with USA Today,
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Speaker 3: he picked the five scariest novels of all time, none
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Speaker 3: of them being Stephen King books. I would think he
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Speaker 3: probably has a case to be made for at least
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Speaker 3: one or two, but it's nice that he didn't pick
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Speaker 3: any of his own books. He says that the scariest
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Speaker 3: book of all time, in his opinion, is William Golding's
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Speaker 3: Lord of the Flies. Makes sense why they make all
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Speaker 3: high school kids read it at some point, right? The
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Speaker 3: Exorcist was two on his list. The Other by Thomas Tryon.
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Speaker 3: William Peter Blatty, by the way, for The Exorcist. Silence
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Speaker 3: of the Lambs, Thomas Harris, and Tradwife by Sarah Langen.
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Speaker 3: I've only read one of these, and it wasn't Lord
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Speaker 3: of the Flies. It was Silence of the Lambs. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: those are good picks, I think. I would probably be
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Speaker 3: tempted to get at least one Stephen King. book in
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Speaker 3: there but I'm not even a big fan you know
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Speaker 3: not a huge Stephen King fan but I would think
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Speaker 3: that he probably should have something on the list right
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Speaker 3: so the most popular restaurant in America right now would
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Speaker 3: probably surprise you apparently a new study says it would
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Speaker 3: probably be your dining room a new study says that
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Speaker 3: we're eating out less often than ever a new Gallo
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Speaker 3: about ever I mean Ever?
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Speaker 2: That's a bit dramatic.
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Speaker 3: According to a new Gallup poll, there was a time
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Speaker 3: when there were no restaurants and everyone just ate at home, right?
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, then ever would be.
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Speaker 3: It's like when they say, this is the hottest summer ever.
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Speaker 3: And you go, eh, I don't know about that. I
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Speaker 3: think the dinosaurs had a stretch, you know. I mean,
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Speaker 3: they missed it, obviously, but I think things were a
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Speaker 3: little warmer then. According to a new Gallup poll, only
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Speaker 3: 39% of us have dined in a restaurant so far
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Speaker 3: this year. That seems really.
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Speaker 2: Low, which is an all-time low. Well, there you go.
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Speaker 3: Before the pandemic, the number was just over 53%, but
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Speaker 3: it's been going down every year since 2019. And more
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Speaker 3: bad news for restaurant owners. Weekly takeout ordering dropped. which
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Speaker 3: rose to 39% in 2021, has returned to its 2018
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Speaker 3: level of just 31%. 4% of Americans say that they
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Speaker 3: never dine out. Instead, Americans are actually returning to the
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Speaker 3: kitchen to cook their own food. 74% visited a grocery
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Speaker 3: store at least once per week in the year of 2026,
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Speaker 3: while 15% regularly ordered grocery delivery, which.
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Speaker 2: Is at an all-time high.
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Speaker 3: The convenience of pickup and delivery, which many Americans adopted
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Speaker 3: during the pandemic, may be what's continued to draw more
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Speaker 3: consumers to shopping online, but more likely higher prices, including
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Speaker 3: a spike in gas prices, could have led to some
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Speaker 3: consumers to go for the more economical route. So restaurant
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Speaker 3: owners probably struggling a bit with that. And I know
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Speaker 3: that the easy thing to do here is to blame inflation,
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Speaker 3: and we're coming out of a presidency where inflation hit
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Speaker 3: that all-time high. Everybody wants to say it's about this administration.
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Speaker 3: I know we've got some gas prices to go with
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Speaker 3: all of that because of Iran, but they're down now,
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Speaker 3: by the way. But just people are still dealing with
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Speaker 3: that and post-COVID and everything, so that's all part of
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Speaker 3: all of this. But I think it is at least worth...
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Speaker 3: Considering that it has something to do with social media
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Speaker 3: and the way people are treating, you know, someone doesn't
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Speaker 3: tip what they think is the right amount. The demand
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Speaker 3: on social media now, if you haven't seen it, by
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Speaker 3: the way, there's an expectation now of minimum tipping of
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Speaker 3: 30% for some people. That's what they think it should be.
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Speaker 3: Even if you're just going in to pick up the food,
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Speaker 3: you should tip 30%. I think that's part of it.
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Speaker 3: I do think that that has something to do with it.
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Speaker 3: And I think the fact that it already costs more
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Speaker 3: to get your food at a restaurant than it is
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Speaker 3: to buy the food, make it, and have your own
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Speaker 3: leftovers or whatever. So I think that the price of
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Speaker 3: the restaurant food on top of the now request to
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Speaker 3: not even come in and pick it up, Because the
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Speaker 3: expectation there is also a 30% tip when all you're
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Speaker 3: doing is.
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Speaker 2: Picking it up.
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Speaker 3: And if you get a food delivery service, they don't
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Speaker 3: pay a tip when they pick it up. I know
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Speaker 3: I've talked about that before, but I feel like it's
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Speaker 3: worth noting. They're not giving a tip when they pick
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Speaker 3: it up. So why should anyone that's picking it up?
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Speaker 3: That's my thoughts on that. That'll do it for this
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