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The Press Still Thinks It's October 2024 · 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: Monday morning, thirteenth day of January. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. Monday the thirteenth always worse than Friday the thirteenth,
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Speaker 2: always because it's Monday. It's not Friday. Friday the thirteenth
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Speaker 2: should be better. Why people wanted to say that's the
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Speaker 2: bad one? I still don't understand, but that's what they do.
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Speaker 2: They just think Friday the thirteenth is so bad and
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Speaker 2: it's Friday. What are you talking about? Why at all?
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Speaker 2: Why would you think it was bad when it's Friday.
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Speaker 2: Monday the thirteenth much worse. It's Monday. And if you're suspicious, suspicious, superstitious,
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Speaker 2: or if you're suspicious of superstition, it could be that
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Speaker 2: as well. Let's jump. We got a few things to
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Speaker 2: talk about today. There's just a few things. I don't
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Speaker 2: know if I can get through all of them today.
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Speaker 2: This may be today and tomorrow show combination of things.
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Speaker 2: But first thing I want to talk about is this
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Speaker 2: growing sentiment that LA and the fires are getting so
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Speaker 2: much more attention than the hurricane victims in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee,
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Speaker 2: and in that area. I've seen a number of people
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Speaker 2: pointing out that those lives there have still not gotten better.
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Speaker 2: They haven't gone back to their lives, they don't have homes,
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Speaker 2: they're still struggling. This isn't to take anything away from
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Speaker 2: the people in Los Angeles, because it's horrible for everyone involved.
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Speaker 2: But the people that complaining about the imbalance of coverage
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Speaker 2: of these two events have a point, and it's a
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Speaker 2: couple of things. And I think the explanations it doesn't
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Speaker 2: make it better, certainly doesn't make it better. I think
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Speaker 2: the first thing that is certainly going to be the
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Speaker 2: case is we have a handful of large cities that
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Speaker 2: have a tendency to suck up most of the media attention.
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Speaker 2: Think back to COVID, Think back to everything that was
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Speaker 2: going on during COVID as places were getting shut down,
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Speaker 2: and we had news outlets that just basically were giving
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Speaker 2: the governor of New York State all the airtime he
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Speaker 2: wanted to talk about COVID. He wasn't a good governor.
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Speaker 2: He didn't handle COVID well. I mean, he was making
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Speaker 2: mistake after mistake. I've defended many politicians for how they
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Speaker 2: handled COVID because no one signed up for that. No
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Speaker 2: one could have seen that coming. We didn't have anyone
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Speaker 2: really with the kind of I would say wouldn' didn't
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Speaker 2: have anyone. We didn't have many people in elected positions
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Speaker 2: that were prepared to handle that. I'm sure there were
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Speaker 2: military backgrounds for some politicians that understood there's a chain
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Speaker 2: of command, there's an order of things, there's a process
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Speaker 2: for how you do things. But we, for the most part,
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Speaker 2: all around the country, really around the world, had people
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Speaker 2: that were just kind of shooting from the hip man.
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Speaker 2: They didn't know what to do, They didn't know how
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Speaker 2: to handle it. They didn't sign up for it. They
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Speaker 2: signed up to lead. They just didn't sign up for
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Speaker 2: a pandemic to be part of what they were going
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Speaker 2: to be leading people through. Cuomo, however, was just awful.
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Speaker 2: This was not someone who was like, you know, I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna make make some decisions that'll be a little questionable.
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Speaker 2: These were fatal, horrible decisions that got made. He's not
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Speaker 2: one of the ones that I say, hey, give him
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Speaker 2: the benefit of the doubt, because he didn't sign up
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Speaker 2: for this. I don't know what he was thinking. I
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Speaker 2: don't know why, I don't know how, you know, ultimately
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Speaker 2: became ungoverned. As the governor, he became ungoverned. So we
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Speaker 2: did get a lot of coverage of what was going
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Speaker 2: on in New York. Many of the large media companies
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Speaker 2: based out of New York. There's an unfair bias towards
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Speaker 2: New York. It's our largest city, it's an important city
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Speaker 2: in our country. Then you go, well, what's the next
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Speaker 2: biggest one. Well it's La. La is big. La is
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Speaker 2: important for a number of reasons. Chicago is another large city.
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Speaker 2: Those are the three get a lot of attention. And
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Speaker 2: I would say in that order, and if you want
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Speaker 2: to talk about, you know, size of the cities, hey,
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Speaker 2: well there you go. La has a different extra bit
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Speaker 2: of things that draw the attention to it. It's rich
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Speaker 2: and the famous. There's a lot of appeal to it.
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Speaker 2: There's an old school Hollywood air about it. And many people,
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Speaker 2: if they themselves haven't thought, man, what a life it
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Speaker 2: would be to drop everything and go to Hollywood and
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Speaker 2: be a movie star. They may know somebody who's thought
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Speaker 2: that or done that, tried to do that. It's not
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Speaker 2: easy for some that was the big dream. That was
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Speaker 2: the big dream, you know, for when my parents were kids.
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Speaker 2: It goes way back. Doesn't make it okay, doesn't make
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Speaker 2: the people who live there more important than the people
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Speaker 2: who live in Asheville, North Carolina. It doesn't. But when
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Speaker 2: you are talking about half a million to you know,
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Speaker 2: ten million dollar houses getting burned down, it becomes a
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Speaker 2: little different. And it's not to say there's not some
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Speaker 2: really nice expensive houses in Asheville in the Carolinas, because
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Speaker 2: we know that there are, but there is going to
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Speaker 2: be a slightly different look in that direction. Now, if
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Speaker 2: this fire or these fires were happening during the election,
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Speaker 2: maybe there'd be a different take on it as well.
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Speaker 2: A lot of donors for Democrats, a lot of them
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Speaker 2: in Hollywood. I think there's a reason that a lot
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Speaker 2: of attention is being focused on the city of Los Angeles.
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Speaker 2: It's a really good question to ask, why why are
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Speaker 2: the people in the Carolinas, in Georgia and Tennessee, the
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Speaker 2: areas impacted by I mean, even the parts of Florida
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Speaker 2: they got hit again. Another situation of our hurricanes slamming
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Speaker 2: through Florida and just kind of we kind of got
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Speaker 2: through those now this these fires. Now, granted the hurricanes
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Speaker 2: went through people were impacted. I mean, these fires are
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Speaker 2: active and it is an ongoing problem. Now, I want
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Speaker 2: to just point out I don't in any way think
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Speaker 2: that we should belittle what's happened in California. That's not
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Speaker 2: the case. I do think we have given more attention
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Speaker 2: to California than we have to the East Coast and
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Speaker 2: what happened during those hurricanes. Now I can give one
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Speaker 2: small update. I have friends in law Los Angeles. I
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Speaker 2: have checked in with them. I did the same thing
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Speaker 2: with my friends in Asheville and in the Carolinas that
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Speaker 2: were impacted, and I've done the same thing now with
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Speaker 2: friends in Los Angeles. A couple I have not heard
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Speaker 2: back from, which is a little scary. I'm hoping to
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Speaker 2: hear back from them soon, but at this point I
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Speaker 2: have not one of them that I have heard back from,
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Speaker 2: and I don't think he would mind me passing along
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Speaker 2: the update that he gave, which is basically that yes,
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Speaker 2: he knows people that have been impacted and that he
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Speaker 2: himself and his family are in an area where as
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Speaker 2: of right now they're okay, and he let me know,
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Speaker 2: you know about specific members of the family. His son
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Speaker 2: where he lives is okay, and that he and his
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Speaker 2: family where they live are okay. I know roughly where
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Speaker 2: they live. It's not someone who who's home I've been to,
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Speaker 2: but it's someone that I've gotten to know over the years.
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Speaker 2: And I'll just mention it because it's someone who lives
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Speaker 2: and works in Hollywood, and it's someone that you may
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Speaker 2: not know by name, but you know what he does
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Speaker 2: for a living. And it's Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob,
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Speaker 2: longtime character actor. He was almost on Saturday Night Live
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Speaker 2: back in the time when I guess David Spade and
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Speaker 2: Rob Schneider got on instead of him because of their
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Speaker 2: writing abilities, apparently according to David Spade. But yeah, the
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Speaker 2: Kennys are okay, but yes, they're concerned about friends, neighbors,
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Speaker 2: and people around them. I was able to check in
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Speaker 2: with him and he let me know what was going
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Speaker 2: on with them with his son, Mac, who is also
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Speaker 2: a talented voice actor. So I was glad to be
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Speaker 2: able to check in with him. There's a few others
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Speaker 2: that I know there that I have not heard back from,
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Speaker 2: and I'm not going to say who they are because
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Speaker 2: I don't want to. It may just be that they're busy,
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Speaker 2: that they have other things going on, or maybe they're
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe they got out of La or I
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Speaker 2: don't know, they may not live near where Tom lives,
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Speaker 2: and you know, maybe they're in areas that are more
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Speaker 2: concerned or maybe far less concern So it was nice
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Speaker 2: to be able to hear from him, nice to be
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Speaker 2: able to check in with him. And as I told him,
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Speaker 2: I continue to pray for him, his family and everybody there.
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Speaker 2: It's awful, but we need to remember, also separately, back
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Speaker 2: to my original point, to pray for those people who
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Speaker 2: live in Carolinas and parts of Georgia and parts of
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Speaker 2: Tennessee that are I guess, living in tents in this
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Speaker 2: cold weather, this cold snap that we've had, this horrible.
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Speaker 2: It's a wild scene when you think of America as
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Speaker 2: in the last you know, four or five days, the
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Speaker 2: East coast covered in snow and ice, West coast on fire.
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Speaker 2: It's a wild thought that those are the images that
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Speaker 2: we've been getting. A couple of other things. First of all,
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about so the mayor in La
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Speaker 2: she held a press conference yesterday morning, and she's probably
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Speaker 2: all have one today, probably had a couple yesterday, but
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Speaker 2: I saw the one yesterday morning, and there were other
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Speaker 2: city leaders and folks from the fire department and things,
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Speaker 2: and they were all there talking representatives of different districts
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Speaker 2: and areas. And at the end they offered an opportunity
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Speaker 2: for the media that was there to ask questions, and
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Speaker 2: the media did ask questions, and the questions I'm going
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Speaker 2: to paraphrase some of this, but it was got a
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Speaker 2: bit absurd at times. How concerned are you that you
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Speaker 2: haven't heard from the incoming president of the United States
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump? Her response was, I don't know what you're
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Speaker 2: talking about. I have heard from his office and we've
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Speaker 2: been talking with them and they're offering assistance and help.
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Speaker 2: A couple of other questions came in, and then we
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Speaker 2: were back to the questions about Trump. How concerned are
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Speaker 2: you about the things that he's been saying about you
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Speaker 2: and about California? And do you think they're not going
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Speaker 2: to help you. I don't know what you're talking about.
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Speaker 2: They've offered help, they're working with us, and we've been
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Speaker 2: in touch with them, and we're you know, hopefully he's
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Speaker 2: he's going to come and you know, make a visit.
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Speaker 2: So you're saying that the incoming president hasn't visited yet.
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Speaker 2: How concerned are you about that? We're not concerned about that.
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Speaker 2: He's he's we've been in touch. So have you been
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Speaker 2: in touch with him or someone else? And how concerned
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Speaker 2: are you the event's talked directly to him. Concerned because
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Speaker 2: we've talked with high ranking people and it was interesting
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Speaker 2: to hear the folks on the stage ultimately making nice
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Speaker 2: with the incoming administration. Now, there's a few ways to
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Speaker 2: interpret that. It could be as simple as they're gonna
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Speaker 2: need help and they're gonna need to play nice. And yes,
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Speaker 2: Trump has said some things, asked some questions. Now one
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Speaker 2: of those questions is about the governor. And if we've
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Speaker 2: got time, we'll get to this. If not, we'll talk
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Speaker 2: about it tomorrow. But Gavin Newsom offering a website that
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Speaker 2: you can go to and learn about all the inaccurate
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Speaker 2: facts the misinformation about the California fires. And while you're there,
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Speaker 2: you can make a donation to help people affected by
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Speaker 2: going through Act Blue. The representation, a company that hands
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Speaker 2: out money to Democrat donors and things, and then ultimately
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Speaker 2: signs you up as a donor for what I assume
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Speaker 2: will eventually be. It's not officially listed as, but I
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Speaker 2: assume it will be what they're hoping to be Newsome
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Speaker 2: for president in four years. But anyway, we can dive
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Speaker 2: into that more maybe tomorrow. But what I'm kind of
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Speaker 2: the impression I'm getting after listening to this and hearing people,
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Speaker 2: hearing more and more celebrities come out and say that they're,
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Speaker 2: you know, supporting Trump. They're excited about where things are
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Speaker 2: going with Trump. Now not all of them. You got
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Speaker 2: the ones that have dug in and they're always going
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Speaker 2: to be who they're going to be. But it's interesting
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Speaker 2: to me, and this is just my interpretation of things. Okay,
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Speaker 2: this is my impression of what's going on is we've
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Speaker 2: had for so long this idea, this fear campaign that
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Speaker 2: was run against anybody who thought about voting Republican. I've
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Speaker 2: shared with you all before. You know, back in four
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Speaker 2: I had someone, a work colleague who lived in California
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Speaker 2: who told me that he and I couldn't be friends
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Speaker 2: anymore because I wouldn't vote for John Kerry, which I
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Speaker 2: thought was wild. That was my first experience with the
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Speaker 2: you know, you must vote the same way I do,
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Speaker 2: or we can't be friends in that day. Yes, our
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Speaker 2: relationship as colleagues changed. He didn't cut me out completely,
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Speaker 2: but it was a much less friendly discourse we had
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Speaker 2: over time. So I know that this negative venom that
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Speaker 2: comes from and it doesn't mean there aren't people on
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Speaker 2: the right that do it, but we've had this for
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Speaker 2: a while now coming from the left. If you support Trump,
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Speaker 2: you're awful, you're racist, all these horrible things. I have
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Speaker 2: a dear friend of mine who was accused of being
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Speaker 2: racist for you know, a post after the election saying
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Speaker 2: that they were glad Trump won and ultimately called racist
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Speaker 2: by another former colleague of ours. It's just such a
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Speaker 2: crazy place that we've been in, and a lot of
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Speaker 2: people didn't want to speak up. And when celebrities did
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Speaker 2: think Gina Carano worked for Disney, was on the Star
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Speaker 2: Wars series Mandalorian, and you know, the public decided they
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Speaker 2: didn't like that she was not supporting the ways of
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Speaker 2: the left, so they forced Disney into firing her. And
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Speaker 2: there's still some people who still think that's funny. Ha
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Speaker 2: ha ha ha. They missed the point. They don't understand.
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Speaker 2: This is all what ultimately caused the reelection of Trump
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Speaker 2: at the level, at the numbers that he was reelected.
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Speaker 2: Someone tried to tell me the other day, Trump didn't
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Speaker 2: really win by a lot in the popular vote, and
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Speaker 2: it's like, but he won the popular vote. It shouldn't
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Speaker 2: matter if it's by one vote. The popular vote doesn't
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Speaker 2: decide the presidency anyway, But it says a lot that
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Speaker 2: he won the popular vote. It says a lot that
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Speaker 2: he won the popular vote, and he did win it
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Speaker 2: by enough that it made a statement. So I guess
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Speaker 2: what I'm wondering is with celebrities coming out speaking up
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Speaker 2: in support of him, Justine Bateman, Zachary Levi and others
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Speaker 2: being comfortable in their skin to say, look, this is
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Speaker 2: what we needed. The woke thing isn't working. The Bill
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Speaker 2: Mahers of the world not necessarily supporting Trump but saying yeah,
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Speaker 2: the woke thing wasn't cutting it. But I do think
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Speaker 2: that this last group, other than the diehard people who
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Speaker 2: are just programmed and they can't think for themselves anymore.
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Speaker 2: And there's people like that on both sides, but right
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Speaker 2: now we've got people on the left who aren't even
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Speaker 2: trying to think for themselves. They're not looking at the positive.
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Speaker 2: Some are understanding what I've been trying to say. You know,
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Speaker 2: like Trump, this was the best thing to happen. This
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Speaker 2: is his last term, and then it's over. You'll never
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Speaker 2: have to see Donald Trump running for president again. It's over.
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Speaker 2: He can't run again. At the end of this, it
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Speaker 2: will be over. He'll be done, he'll move on, he'll retire,
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Speaker 2: he'll go play golf, whatever the next thing is for him.
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Speaker 2: It will be over. At least see that, at least
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Speaker 2: see that five years ago we were doing better financially,
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Speaker 2: we were we were doing better at the beginning of
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty than we are, you know, in the last
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Speaker 2: six months. It's different. Look for the positives in that.
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Speaker 2: So you got those people who are never going to
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Speaker 2: let go. But it's interesting, isn't it That it seems
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Speaker 2: that the press is the group that's just not going
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Speaker 2: to let it go. They still feel like for them
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Speaker 2: to be important, for them to be relevant. They're standing
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Speaker 2: there shouting all these negative questions about Trump to people
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Speaker 2: who aren't going to take the bait. They feel like
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Speaker 2: to stay relevant, to still be important, they've got to
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Speaker 2: Mufasa the Lion King second place, Sonic the Hedgehog three,
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Speaker 2: Nosferatu and Molana two. On the Move or the Top
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Speaker 2: five The Robbie Williams bio pick where a CGI monkey
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Speaker 2: plays Robbie Williams. Apparently nobody notices he just goes through
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Speaker 2: the whole movie is a monkey because he says he
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Speaker 2: wasn't really evolved, doesn't feel he's as evolved as everybody else,
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Speaker 2: so that's why they got a monkey to play him.
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Speaker 2: It did not crack into the top ten, only one
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Speaker 2: point one million dollars in thirteen hundred theaters. A couple
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Speaker 2: of things. A Robbie Williams not the household name in
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Speaker 2: the States that he is, I guess in the UK,
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Speaker 2: bigger name there, and then that's probably a big part
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Speaker 2: of it. And then two, you know it's weird. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's just weird. It's a weird story. It's a weird concept,
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Speaker 2: a weird way to tell his life story. But hey,
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Speaker 2: good for it's art, right, I mean, they've made their movie.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that the Robbie Williams biopic draws any
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Speaker 2: attention if not for the monkey probably doing a little
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Speaker 2: bit better than it would have done, I would think,
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Speaker 2: even though you might think, hey, that's not a lot
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Speaker 2: of money to begin with. All right, we're almost halfway
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Speaker 2: into January, so dry January. It seems a lot of
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Speaker 2: people have already gone back to drinking. I mean, in
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Speaker 2: some cases maybe you know, they're sticking with it. In
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Speaker 2: other cases, maybe they had some kind of a gathering.
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Speaker 2: And here's the reasons apparently people tend to fail at
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Speaker 2: dry January. At the top of the list is that
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Speaker 2: they forgot that they were doing it. I remember once
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Speaker 2: when I was about seven years old, eight years old,
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Speaker 2: I decided I wasn't going to eat French fries for
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Speaker 2: a whole year. That was the thing, or I think
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Speaker 2: that's what it was, because my dad, I guess, had
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Speaker 2: done it for some reason. He's like, I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to eat French fries for a year. So I thought
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Speaker 2: I'll do it too, And then the very next opportunity
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Speaker 2: when French fries were placed in front of me, I
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Speaker 2: eat French fries because I forgot that I was doing it. Now,
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Speaker 2: in my defense, I was a kid, and I would
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Speaker 2: hope that in the case of an adult who says, hey,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to stop drinking alcohol for a month, that
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Speaker 2: they would at least think about it before they did it.
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Speaker 2: But apparently a lot of people forget. Basically, forgetting is
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Speaker 2: the top reason when people go to like to a
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Speaker 2: happy hour with friends or coworkers, and they kind of
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Speaker 2: cave in and say, well, I'm here, I should have
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Speaker 2: a drink. I went out on a date and had
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Speaker 2: a drink. It seems like the most justified fits as
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Speaker 2: you know that particular social setting, not that you know,
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Speaker 2: whatever your reason is for caving, bad day at work,
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Speaker 2: wanted to relax, stress, watching the news, those seem like
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Speaker 2: the weakest of the I mean, other than forgetting. Oops,
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Speaker 2: I forgot. But in a social setting, I suppose you could.
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Speaker 2: You could justify it for any one of those things
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Speaker 2: if you really want to. According to a recent survey,
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Speaker 2: seventy percent of those who responded believe that a clutter
26:27
Speaker 2: free home is the secret to a successful year. The
26:31
Speaker 2: study found that sixty six percent of people think starting
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Speaker 2: the year with a clean home is crucial, and a
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Speaker 2: whopping eighty three percent say that it sets the tone
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Speaker 2: for the entire year. Some even admit to being superstitious
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Speaker 2: about it. Fifty six percent believe that a clean home
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Speaker 2: means a good year is ahead. Seventy five percent of
26:50
Speaker 2: those who responded are determined to keep their homes cleaner
26:54
Speaker 2: this year than they did last year, and to kick
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Speaker 2: off the new year right, many planned a big deep
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Speaker 2: clean early in the year that they estimate will take
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Speaker 2: about twenty hours of cleaning. However, keeping up with the
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Speaker 2: cleanliness can be a challenge, especially during winter, with messy
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Speaker 2: habits creeping back in after about four weeks. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: take long. And who knows, maybe you forgot you were
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Speaker 2: keeping a clean house. Sometimes people just forget, and what
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Speaker 2: are you going to do? You forgot? Americans have figured
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Speaker 2: out a way to save money this year, and it takes.
27:29
Speaker 2: All it really takes is giving up a dating life.
27:31
Speaker 2: According to a new pole, nearly a third of respondents
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Speaker 2: said that they're looking to save money, and they'll do
27:36
Speaker 2: so by cutting back on dating expenses, which they say
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Speaker 2: could save them about four thousand dollars works out to
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Speaker 2: about eighty dollars a week. And maybe giving up datings
27:47
Speaker 2: isn't necessarily in your plans this year, then, experts suggest
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Speaker 2: choosing lower cost alternatives to dinner and drinks like coffee, dates, picnics, hikes,
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Speaker 2: visits to a museum, things like that. You know or
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Speaker 2: you know, remember that you're not drinking alcohol. That's another
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Speaker 2: way you can cut back on some of those expenses.
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