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Speaker Johnson Called It · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, tenth
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day of January. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. We made it
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through the craziness that was the storms of yesterday. I know a lot of
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the area kids were out of school. There's concerns always when there is potential
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severe weather that involves severe winds, and I know there's a lot of people
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who scratch their heads or they say, wait a minute, was this really
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bad enough to keep the kids out of school? And the answer to that,
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ultimately, whether you agree whether or not, the decision gets made based
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on the speed and strength of the wind, and we certainly had that yesterday.
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There were a lot of trees down, There are a lot of branches
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down. We had a few trees down in our neighborhood. Thankfully, we
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did not lose power here. I know some did, especially scattered around throughout
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the southeast parts of Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama places at lost
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power. I'm thankful that we did not. Hear we are in I've mentioned
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this already kind of a unique situation in that we have our kitchen in the
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middle of a renovation where it's kind of a lull point where insurance is working
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on whatever the next phase of it is, so they're not rebuilding yet.
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We just have a gutted kitchen. And that gutted kitchen, of course it
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has it's down to the studs. There's no insulation. There's not even a
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ceiling. The ceiling is just plastic. That's what we're dealing with at the
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moment. So if we were to lose power in the midst of a severe
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storm and cold weather and all that, it would be rough. It's already
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cold in that room. We have to try to seal off that room as
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best we can, just so we don't pay even more for our heat.
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You know, the cost of heating homes with electric or whether you're using gas
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is up. I think forty percent is the average across the country for utility.
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So we don't need any more. It'd been paying anymore for our heating
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our house. While we have this particular situation in this particular room, we're
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not complaining. We're dealing. That's what we're trying to do. I may
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complain a little bit as this goes on. This project, but that would
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have been rough without having power, so that would have certainly complicated a lot
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with us here in the house. I'm very thankful that that did not happen.
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Doesn't mean that whatever. There's another system coming through apparently here soon and
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by the end of the week, I think, And doesn't mean it can't
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happen then, But at the moment, that's where we are. So I'm
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I hope you were able to have a relative sane day at home with the
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kids doing virtual learning or whatever your situation was with your kids. Our kids
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police themselves, well, I assume they got all the work done. They
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seem to have been working on it yesterday while we had a bunch going on
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here around the Carroll House, the Carroll House Sands kitchen, because that's what
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we have. There is a audio clip that is circulating and audio clips circulating
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from back in twenty twenty two, and it's starting to make the rounds again,
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I guess partly because Mike Johnson is now the Speaker of the House and
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this audio clip of the speaker back before he was the speaker, and he's
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having an interaction with Jerry Nadler and they're talking about immigration and they're talking about
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illegal and they're talking about the steady flow of people that have been coming across
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the border. And this is one of those topics that's obviously going to be
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a big one for twenty twenty four with the selection year. Many Americans have
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said the economy, inflation, you know, jobs, all of that,
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the economic side of things, how it affects households, will be the top
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issue for the selection. It should be. This should have been our main
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focus the moment COVID happened. This should have been the focus. But for
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some reason, the left has not let it be the focus. They have
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wanted to focus on, apparently just about everything else, whether it's the environment,
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whatever. They don't care if they're draining you and they're draining your bank
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account and they're making it impossible for you to live. They want to convince
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you that raising the minimum wage is going to help you somehow. And taxing
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business that are the ones that provide you with jobs that they you know,
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they get extra tax, they get inflation hitting them, fuel, hitting them,
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fuel costs. All those things have an impact theft, because that's a
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big part of it right now in the country. With all of these things
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coming to a head in one place, and people still trying to make their
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money. They're trying to make profits on things, and it's putting a real
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pinch on everyday Americans. I have said for years, I feel like the
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left wants to take the middle class, push them down into the lowest group.
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They want to get them in the lowest class groups, push them down,
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get them out of the middle class, push them down, and then
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basically want them to put their hands out and ask for things, because once
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you start doing that, that's when they've got you. There's another thing that
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ties in with that, which is the second biggest issue, which is the
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border crisis. And a lot of people will say that the border will be
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a huge factor. The left thinks the biggest factor is going to be abortion.
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They think January sixth and abortion and abortion will be their biggest push.
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That's where they think they're going to be able to pull the most voters away
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from the middle or right of center, and they think they're going to tap
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into some conservative women that will say, well, abortion is important. So
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if the border is a problem, and the reasons that the border is a
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problem to many Americans is they feel like, hey, I'm struggling to make
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ends meet, and we have people that are coming in with their hands out
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asking for things. And it's been a long assumed what's been called a conspiracy
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theory for a long time that if you say that the reason that the borders
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get open during Democrat presidencies, it's because they're trying to bring in people that
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they feel like will eventually be Democrat voters. And you can't even you're not
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supposed to say that. You're not supposed to say though, because you get
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called a conspiracy theorist and all these things. We talked on the show a
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couple of years ago, and back in twenty twenty two, around the time
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that this particular exchange happened. I didn't I don't remember this exchange. I'm
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glad it's been preserved and I'm glad it's now re emerging. But this is
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from November, I believe it's November of twenty twenty two, and this is
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Mike Johnson before being the Speaker, talking with Jerry Nadler, and they're having
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a discussion about the cities where resolutions were put in place for illegals to vote
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in municipal elections, not in the national election, not for any sort of
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federal office. No, they're talking about you can vote for the mayor,
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or you can vote for somebody in a local city, municipal election. That's
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what was being pushed. New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, there were a
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handful of places. I forget the others. California had some cities that were
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doing it. I remember talking about them, and I remember saying that this
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was a strong indicator that this big conspiracy theory probably had some truth to it.
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Here's the exchange between Mike Johnson, who is more you can understand him
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a little bit better. One because Jerry Nadler mumbles. But two because in
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late twenty twenty two, Nadler is still wearing a mask, you know,
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because it was still part of the show. But here they are talking about
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this very topic. Could the Democrats in charge, and certainly Democrats here with
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jurisdiction over the border, could they really be in favor of an open border?
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And I'm asking you honestly and in good faith, can I ask,
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mister chairman, you're from New York. Thanks to New York City's Council,
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beginning January ninth, twenty twenty three, more than eight hundred thousand non citizens
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will be eligible to vote municipal elections in New York. Is that? Do
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you agree with that policy? No? No, non citizens will not be
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eligible to vote in New York. They never have been. Well, they
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were prior in the nineteenth century eligible to vote in New York. No,
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this is a recent action that is not correct. Non citizens have not been
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eligible to vote in New York or as far as I know, in any
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other state since the nineteenth century. That's not true the New York City.
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All right, So in the midst of this, Nadler has someone leaning into
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him now, I guess, presumably telling him, Yeah, what you're saying
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isn't accurate. Council voted in December to allow this. It begins January ninth,
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twenty twenty three. Cities in Vermont and Maryland already allow this, and
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similar measures are under consideration in Illinois, Maine, and Massachusetts. Right now.
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Is the gentlemen with you? Yes, I believe those are considerations of
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allowing votes in municipal elections only, right, but thank you. That's the
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point everybody wants to know at home. Why would they allow this? Guys?
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They're allowing it because they're going to turn them into voters. They already
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are doing this in New York City, largest city in America. And this
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is the plan of our friends on this side to turn all the illegals into
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voters. That's it, folks, That's what's going on. That's the game.
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That's why the border's open. That's why they've dropped it. That look.
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I mean, I respect that Jess Laughren and all her work in this
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arena. Yes, oh you have, miss Chairman, love to hear what
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you have to say about this. As a New Yorker, I would love
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to think that New York is the entire country, but it is not.
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It is not, And consideration is being given to permitting non citizens to vote
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in New York. And I believe in the capital city of Vermont, I
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forget which that is. But as much as I'd like to believe it,
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New York and Vermont, they're not the entire country. But mister Chairman,
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that's the whole point. This is what's going on, folks at home.
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If you're trying to figure this out, if you're scratching her heads, you've
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see the video. He droves of people, two point four million people coming
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over the order illegally, the president allowing the Democrats in charge of Congress are
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allowing it. The deal is they're going to turn them into voters. You
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just heard it. You don't have any problem with that, and they celebrate
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it. Here's the deal. We have a problem with it. The Constitution
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has a problem with it. American elections should be decided by American citizens.
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And then he dropped his pen. I guess the Mike drop moment there for
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him. We had a similar discussion on this show. We talked about it,
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I think on radio and on the show. So this is this is
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the plan. And again they say it's a conspiracy theory, and they say,
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oh, this has been disproven so many times. There's no other explanation.
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There's no explanation that would ever give any sort of rational, common sense
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understanding for why people are being allowed to get and some of the people being
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allowed to come across the board or are not going to be voters because they
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do have malicious intent. They're coming in with ill will towards Americans. That's
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or they're running from something. Trump called this out from the very beginning when
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he said that the best people from these countries aren't coming here. The people
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that are coming here illegally or the ones that have a criminal background, are
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the ones that are involved in a drug trade or some sort of human trafficking.
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He was called racist for saying it, but here it is. This
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is laying it out for you. And at some point, yes, there
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will be a call, well, they're here, they've been living here,
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they've been here for this long two million people, whatever he's talking about,
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they've been here, so we might as well just grant them amnesty and let's
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just move forward. But that's again part of the recurring problem. Now,
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it hasn't always gone their way. They're not always getting the people that come
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in to be voters. Some of the people that are coming in are coming
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from horrible places with socialism or communism, and they understand you can't come from
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those places here and turn this country into that. And that's not working in
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some cases. But there is the hope that the people that come in that
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eventually will be granted amnesty will be the ones that will carry them in future
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elections. Because back to the point about pushing people out of the middle class,
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pushing them down, putting them in a position where they say we need
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your help, we're going to put our hands out, We're going to ask
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for things. And as long as we keep voting for you, who keeps
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approving to give us things, then we got it made. Here we are,
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we're living the American dream. We can come over, we can ransack
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the hotels that we get put in. We can smoke weed in the hotels.
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Because that's part of the stories that we're hearing from countries, people from
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countries that are coming in saying, well, we can't from a horrible place,
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but now we're in America, and now we're gonna smoke weed. Now
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we're gonna not all of them, but there are these horror stories of people
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that are just here for the freebies. To them, that's the American dream,
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that's what they're here for, not all of them. I'm someone whose
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spouse came to this country through legal means. I understand it's a complicated process.
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It's too complicated. There are ways to make it better, but people
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have to come in legally. That's what we did. We could have sped
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up our it. We took longer than a lot of people thought we would
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to get married because we wanted to do it on our terms. We wanted
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to do it on our timeline. Would have been easier to do it sooner.
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Sure, in spite of popular opinion and what movies tell you Gerard de
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Pardu movies, you don't just immediately get a green card when you get married.
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That's not how it works. Is it easier. Sure, there's still
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a process that you have to go through. There's still a process, there's
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still forms to fill out, there's still fees to pay. And we wanted
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to do it in our time. We wanted to do it when we were
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ready, and that's what we did. But we did everything legally. There
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was never any point where Jill overstate a visa. There was never a point
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where when I was living in Australia for a brief period I overstate a visa.
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That didn't happen. That's not what we did. So I'm an advocate
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for doing all of this legally. I'm an advocate for making this process easier
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for people who have something to bring to the country that want to come to
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it. I'm all for it. I'm all for it, but I'm not
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for just flooding people into the country hoping that eventually they're going to carry us
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through elections. That's not what I'm for. And I'm glad that this audio
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the break. So yesterday we talked about the fact that a lot of people,
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I guess it started the new year going to the gym. There is
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a potential for them to cheat, something to do with the testosterone and things
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at the gym or whatever. I don't know. That's what whatever that story
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was yesterday. I mean, I think if somebody is gonna cheat on somebody,
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I don't know that you can really blame it on the gym. That's
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all I'm getting at. But anyway, as far as gems and relationships go,
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a new survey says that twenty percent of those who work out at least
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once a week said sticking to an exercise routine is harder than committing to a
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partner in a relationship. In the last ten years, respondent said they have
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tried five different types of workouts, and while they said four serious relationships in
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that same time period, sixty eight percent said that they stick with a fitness
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program that doesn't work just because it's comfortable. Fifty three percent said that they
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stay with a partner that isn't right for them for the same reason. So
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I guess sticking with some one is a little harder than sticking with an exercise
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routine that's not working. I don't know. That doesn't seem to make sense
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to me, but I guess I can. I mean, I guess I've
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probably witnessed that in some couples. But anyway, there's one less classic suite
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on the shell now that the makers of fruit Stripe gum if decided to retire
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the gum for good. Fruit Stripe was introduced in the sixties by beech Nut
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and they make baby and toddler food primarily. The gum came in five flares
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wet and wild, melon, cherry, lemon, orange, and peach,
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and featured zebra stripes printed right on each stick. Furra Candy Company, which
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owns the brand, now blame load demand for the cancelation, but John Finn,
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creator of the at snack Memory's Twitter account, says he'll miss it.
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He says in a weird way that mediocre neon sugary gum really captures childhood for
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multiple generations in a way that's hard to articulate. I think you just did
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nice job, John, You articulated that well. I just remember the ads.
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Yeah, I have stripes, fruit, striped, gum whatever. It
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was, all right. What's the most X rated emoji or the most offensive
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one? It depends on your age. A new survey found gen Z was
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most likely to be offended by seeing the peach emoji. That doesn't have anything
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to do with the fruit, you know something else, and Jens X had
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the biggest problem with the eggplant emoji, again nothing to do with the vegetable
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Boomers not fans of the old classic middle finger. Oddly enough, millennials weren't
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put off by anything X rated. They just don't like the beer mug image.
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I don't understand that. I don't know what's to be offended by the
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beer mug image. Elaine Swan, an etiquette expert who's hosted corporate trainings on
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emoji use, thinks that it's best to nix the colorful little drawings all together.
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Emojis can be interpreted as disrespectful. According to Swan, it can differ
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from generation to generation. Across the board. People want to know they've been
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heard, and emojis do not convey that for everybody. So yeah, I
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don't know that. I mean, I guess if I had to say one
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was certainly got my attention the quickest, it would probably be I guess I
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would fit there with the old gen X. Out of the eggplant one kind
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of jumps out at you for obvious reasons. Speaking of obvious reasons and eggplants,
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drive it, and they did what they were supposed to do. They didn't
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let me drive it. But I did my best. I did the best
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that I could to talk them into it. Finally, this is just one
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of those morality questions and it's making the rounds on social media. But apparently
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some people say that it is not immoral and not wrong to lie on your
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resume, and I guess this is a growing sentiment now that it's okay to
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do that. I kind of wonder if what the number of people who agree
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with that versus the number of people who think it's okay to do the quiet
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quit and also the numbermber of people who I think it's okay just to steal
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because you know, insurance, the person that owns the business isn't having to
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cover it. It's insurance that you're stealing from and therefore it's not stealing.
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But it's an interesting question. I mean, I know that everybody probably has
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some tendency to fudge a little bit on the resume, so if that's what
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we're talking about, But eventually that's going to come out, isn't it.
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And sometimes if you lie on your resume too much and they catch you later
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and they don't like you anyway, then they can use that as a justification
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to get rid of you. So you got to be careful with that.
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