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Thoughts On Trump Signing Executive Orders: Dismantle Of DEI, Mass Deportation + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody at the eej Envy, just Hilarius Charlamagne, the guy
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  Speaker 2: we are the breakfast club now if he's just joining us.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about the list of Trump executive orders that
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  Speaker 2: affected people, from DEI to birthright citizenship to ice coming
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  Speaker 2: and taking people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the importations, the dismantling of DEI, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: potential federal hiring freeze, I mean, tariffs, you know. And
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  Speaker 3: so you know, we're just opening up the phone lines
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  Speaker 3: to see how things have impacted people. You know, Jess
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  Speaker 3: is already concerned about the price of wigs potentially.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me, you know, I'm not no, I'm not okay.
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  Speaker 1: It affects my mother.
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  Speaker 4: And other people who have been in childcare administration.
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  Speaker 5: My mom has been taking care of kids, and she
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  Speaker 5: has a childhood preschool and has had one for thirty
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  Speaker 5: years coming up.
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  Speaker 4: And a lot of her money comes from.
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  Speaker 5: The federal government, federal government, you know, like the food program.
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  Speaker 4: She get checks to feed the kids, you know, and then.
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  Speaker 5: All of her parents they are using vouchers or scholarship
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  Speaker 5: of some sort, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: So no potential federal and hiring freeze could shut.
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  Speaker 5: Her absolutely, absolutely, and it will. People are already starting
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  Speaker 5: to be affected by it, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So, and you see the dismantling of DEI program, you
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  Speaker 3: see people losing jobs, you know, when you got these
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  Speaker 3: mass deportations. Like I know people who you know, jobs
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  Speaker 3: have got ran up in you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 3: or their parents' jobs have gotten ran up.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I know family members.
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  Speaker 3: I know families who literally have had to leave because
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  Speaker 3: you know, one person in the household was undocumented and
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  Speaker 3: now they gotta go, and the kids gotta go.
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  Speaker 1: It's real out here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, growing up in New York, of course,
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  Speaker 2: you're surrounded by immigrants, right, You're surrounded by people that.
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  Speaker 1: You are one here, just got crazy, just surrounded. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, he's not wanting the person surrounding.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not. I actually was born here and my parents
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  Speaker 2: were too. But you're surrounded by immigrants that you know,
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  Speaker 2: the kids were born here, but their parents not. And
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  Speaker 2: now many of my friends and the people that I know,
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  Speaker 2: they're fearful that their parents could be you know, taken back,
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  Speaker 2: and parents could be you know, taking by ice because
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  Speaker 2: there's no rules, there's no regulations. They just know that
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  Speaker 2: ice is on the street. Grabbing immigrants. So people are nervous,
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  Speaker 2: people are scared.
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  Speaker 1: Are you an ankle baby?
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  Speaker 2: My parents were born here, sir, My grandparents were born here,
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  Speaker 2: and I was born here, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Prove it.
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  Speaker 5: Let me see that when ice come and snatch you up.
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  Speaker 5: That's gonna be crazy to take my daughter outside to
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  Speaker 5: this day. I'm like Jesus, yes for real. They might
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  Speaker 5: think I'm harvarding.
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  Speaker 4: One of them.
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  Speaker 6: Right, yeah he is.
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  Speaker 5: But Molly look like she nah see she more in
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  Speaker 5: question than her father.
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  Speaker 4: People would be like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: We get that baby from? And if I just got
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  Speaker 1: about myself, I.
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  Speaker 4: Look like a nanny.
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  Speaker 7: Not I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy for the people who don't know your baby
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  Speaker 1: daddy is Mexican. Yes, yes, half Mexican, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Half Mexican. His mind, I'm straight, straight up Mexican. It's
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  Speaker 5: father Blake So and my daughter she looks straight Mexican, Like,
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  Speaker 5: oh my god, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think you should stop saying that you might get it,
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  Speaker 1: not for part, Hello might get it, not just crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm scared.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, who's this?
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  Speaker 8: This is doctor Allen being doctor from I'm from seven five,
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  Speaker 8: but I'm in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 3: Now, okay, how have Trump's executive ters impacted you as far.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely so. I am a director for a diversity and
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  Speaker 8: culching inclusion for engineering research centers, so through the National
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  Speaker 8: Science Foundation, they pretty much stopped all of me my
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  Speaker 8: ability to spend money. I built programs like easy programs
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  Speaker 8: for high school students. They told me I could not
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  Speaker 8: take no more students to Washington, DC for and we
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  Speaker 8: had an upcoming conference for them to present their research.
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  Speaker 8: I have about three hundred thousand dollars and funding that
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  Speaker 8: I can no longer touch because our work in DEI.
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  Speaker 8: They told me, literally, I couldn't you spend no money
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  Speaker 8: because my proposal said I was working with marginalized students.
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  Speaker 8: And that is discrimination by another name. When you're saying
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  Speaker 8: that I can't work with students because they're from marginalized backgrounds,
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  Speaker 8: but if it was a white student, I can go
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  Speaker 8: ahead and continue with my work fits discrimination by another name.
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  Speaker 8: And so I have about I have another about five
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  Speaker 8: million dollars in additional funding that I have that I
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  Speaker 8: have sent in there for review that I can't they
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  Speaker 8: probamizically just going to throw out now. And these are
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  Speaker 8: this is money that's going to our students, our low
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  Speaker 8: income students, underrepresented students, to make sure that we get
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  Speaker 8: skills and help our students continue to grow, go to college,
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  Speaker 8: get scholarships, and we can no longer touch that money.
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  Speaker 8: They are literally trying to prevent us from growing our
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  Speaker 8: communities and be able to do the things that we
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  Speaker 8: need to do, all because they don't want us to
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  Speaker 8: be as successful as we could be. And it is
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  Speaker 8: very sick.
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  Speaker 1: How do we combat that? How do we combat it?
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  Speaker 1: How do we combat it?
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  Speaker 2: Can we?
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  Speaker 8: Well? A few things that we have to do is
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  Speaker 8: we have to put pressure on our elective officials. The
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  Speaker 8: Democrats have to be able to stop, get off their
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  Speaker 8: fingers and actually to do something. This should not be
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  Speaker 8: a process for them to be able to discriminate by
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  Speaker 8: another name. There should be some type of lawsuits that
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  Speaker 8: are letting them say, hey, you all have not does
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  Speaker 8: not have not developed any criteria for what is consider DEI.
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  Speaker 8: You all are just looking for anything that says black
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  Speaker 8: or brown, underrepresented, marginalized, low income, and that is discriminating.
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  Speaker 8: There needs to be some folks that are doing something
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  Speaker 8: in the legal arena. They need to be folks are
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  Speaker 8: doing something in the political arena. And we also need
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  Speaker 8: to start thinking about how do we make sure that
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  Speaker 8: we're not hands from the next time one of these
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  Speaker 8: olar guards if somebody comes in and want to take
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  Speaker 8: over power like this, we need to be able to
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  Speaker 8: make sure that we're self sufficient, sustainable and figure out
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  Speaker 8: ways from which you can do that.
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  Speaker 1: I totally agree.
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  Speaker 8: Man.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the hell part about it is there are
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  Speaker 3: you know, guardrails and tools that democrats can use. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, we just keep getting all these statements about
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  Speaker 3: norms and faith and institutions brought them.
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  Speaker 1: Institutions are done.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, these people are playing by a different set of rules.
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  Speaker 3: They need to figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's open up the phone lines again. We're taking
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  Speaker 2: some more calls when we come back. Eight hundred and
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  Speaker 2: five eight five, one oh five to one. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about the list of Trump's executive orders. How has this
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  Speaker 2: affected you so far? Call us up right now. It's
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  Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
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  Speaker 9: Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne de God. We are
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  Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club. Now if you're just joining us, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the lists of Trump's executive orders and how
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  Speaker 2: it's affecting people already. From DEI to.
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  Speaker 1: The dismantling of the dismantling of DEI programs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's so many things we've discussed in the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of days. So there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: on the lines. Let's go right to the phone line.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, who's this.
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  Speaker 8: Hi, This ISQua Hey Liqueta.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. How has Trump's executive orders affected you so far?
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  Speaker 10: Good morning, you guys. I'm here in the seven five seven,
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  Speaker 10: and as you guys know, it is a smart military community,
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  Speaker 10: and I am a federal government employee. And as you
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  Speaker 10: guys know, like that email went out last week basically
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  Speaker 10: asking us, do you want to resign and keep your
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  Speaker 10: you know, your benefits, keep your pain until September. So
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  Speaker 10: a lot of people are freaking out about that. I
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  Speaker 10: also know a lot of people that have gotten final
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  Speaker 10: job offers, but if they have a start date after
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  Speaker 10: the eighth of February, they've had to rescind that job offer.
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  Speaker 10: So a lot of people have made plans based on
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  Speaker 10: the job offers and they're not able to accept them.
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  Speaker 10: And they don't know when, you know, they are going
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  Speaker 10: to be able to even you know, if that job
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  Speaker 10: will still be available when it's hiring fees is up.
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  Speaker 10: So it's it's a little stressful out here, and there's
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  Speaker 10: no guarantees. A lot of schedules have changed. I mean,
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  Speaker 10: it's a lot of agencies don't know what's going to
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  Speaker 10: be the final like period and all be all. But
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  Speaker 10: you know, there's a lot of nervous energy out here,
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  Speaker 10: especially with a lot of subtle agencies in the Hampton
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  Speaker 10: Roads region.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for calling Quinn, Yeah, thank you for calling
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  Speaker 1: my mom. Hello, who's this.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning?
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: How is it affected?
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  Speaker 9: It expected me because like I have a childcare assistant
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  Speaker 9: sub to the assistants application and right now that's spending
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  Speaker 9: that possibly may not be approved because I have a
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  Speaker 9: toddler and I'm a full time working mom and I
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  Speaker 9: need a child here, sisters, is a possibly I won't
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  Speaker 9: get it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So sorry, see, I see.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad we're having this conversation, man, because you know,
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  Speaker 3: you see all of these things on these on the news,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, you see a Trump doing all these
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  Speaker 3: executive orders like this, this stuff is impacting average, every day,
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  Speaker 3: regular working class folks. Like we're all being impacted by
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  Speaker 3: this in some way, shape or form, or we know
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  Speaker 3: somebody who is.
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  Speaker 2: Let's call. There's a lot of people on the line.
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  Speaker 2: Eight hundred and five eight five five one five one.
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  Speaker 4: Hello.
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  Speaker 7: Who's this And this is Rob coming out of Summerville,
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  Speaker 7: South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, four to three. What's up Somerville?
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  Speaker 3: How Trump executive boid is impacting you in South Carolina
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  Speaker 3: right now?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 7: Well, man, I live in a pretty upcoming neighborhood of
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  Speaker 7: you know, being built up. And you said, what, we
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  Speaker 7: live in Nexus, Summerville, can.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And driving to the neighborhood is quiet. The workers aren't
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  Speaker 7: really there. And I'm just imagining what the conversations with
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  Speaker 7: all these builders are about getting houses out of people
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  Speaker 7: because they're not being built and they're not paying for
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  Speaker 7: American labor. So I'm wondering, like, what's the conversation. How's
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  Speaker 7: that going to be affecting the market with people. It's
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  Speaker 7: already expensive enough to.
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  Speaker 1: Buy a house.
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  Speaker 8: Damn.
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  Speaker 1: So you said it's quiet, They didn't deported everybody.
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  Speaker 7: Huh.
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  Speaker 1: There ain't no construction to nothing.
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  Speaker 7: No nall's banging on the roofs.
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  Speaker 8: Nothing, just quiet. Man.
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  Speaker 1: You drove by the home depot, they're not.
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  Speaker 7: Hanging out in front no more.
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  Speaker 4: We finish. We're just gonna be the.
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  Speaker 1: Real question I'm wondering.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, brother, Let's got another caller.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, who's this.
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  Speaker 8: Yo?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning?
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  Speaker 1: They deported him just that fast.
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  Speaker 8: His name.
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  Speaker 4: Driving right now?
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  Speaker 8: Hello?
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  Speaker 6: How is the morning for a lot of Good morning?
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  Speaker 2: How are you're talking about Trump's executive voters? How has
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  Speaker 2: it affected you at all?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, honestly, let's be well, LA, women numbers don't
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  Speaker 6: America voted for Trump. I don't understand. Now, why did
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  Speaker 6: everybody go up at more about what's going on? When
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  Speaker 6: they were saying your multiple times over and over the
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  Speaker 6: biding administration. Let us know about twenty nobody doesn't care.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. Why is everybody at.
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  Speaker 1: Uplior down you're doing, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: You're absolutely right. But what that got to do with
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  Speaker 3: his executive orders impacting people?
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  Speaker 6: It was expected, it was what's coming. Yes, there's nothing
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  Speaker 6: you can do about it if you voted him an office.
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  Speaker 1: But have But have they impacted you? What have? That's
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  Speaker 1: the question you're at this point.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna be honest to do. I'm gonna be honest
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  Speaker 6: with you. Prayers gonna do it. Tom ninety one, TOM
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  Speaker 6: twenty three, Tom one twenty one and and and what
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  Speaker 6: god that's doing on?
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  Speaker 2: All right? Thank you mama? What is she saying to ourselves?
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  Speaker 1: That's what she said.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all voted for him. And she didn't answer the question.
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  Speaker 2: She basically just said that y'all didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, she always some way to you understand.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, Lord, and I understand what she's saying.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not the question we're asking.
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  Speaker 3: The question we're asking is how has his executive orders
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  Speaker 3: impacted people? Because, you know what, I would like to
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  Speaker 3: start hearing his solutions, you know, like I would like
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  Speaker 3: to start hearing you know, how we can combat some
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  Speaker 3: of these things.
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  Speaker 1: But how can we?
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  Speaker 2: Right because he's the president. He put these orders into play.
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  Speaker 2: This is his house right now, right, But so how
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  Speaker 2: do we how do we stop that? How do we
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  Speaker 2: defend it? How do we combat that?
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  Speaker 5: How is there anyway like something can happen locally? Like
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  Speaker 5: because even with my mom saying, you know, she with
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  Speaker 5: my mom being affected, you know, and then the call
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  Speaker 5: who just called up and said, like they're gonna cut
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  Speaker 5: her child care benefit.
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  Speaker 4: She's a full time working mom. Like, is there something
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  Speaker 4: we can do?
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  Speaker 5: Like the mayors, the governors, like, you know, I know
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  Speaker 5: he signed these orders, but it's no way, like can
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  Speaker 5: we tackle it locally.
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  Speaker 3: There's tools and guardrails that these people have at their
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  Speaker 3: disposable disposal to try to slow down some of this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, they got to have the strength to
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  Speaker 3: use them. You know, the Democrats are a party of cowards.
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  Speaker 3: They're leaderless right now, right now, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 3: but they are there are guardrails in place. Right Well,
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  Speaker 3: we gotta uh, this is gonna be a never ending conversation,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, y'all do know that, right, But it just.
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  Speaker 2: Feels weird because when you look at Biden and him
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  Speaker 2: being in office in the last four years and what
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  Speaker 2: he's done, and then you look at Trump being so
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  Speaker 2: aggressive and doing everything that he wanted to do and
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  Speaker 2: not apologizing for it and just doing it basically saying
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  Speaker 2: I told y'all I was gonna do if you don't
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  Speaker 2: like it, middle finger, And then you look at the
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  Speaker 2: last four years and look at Biden was just so
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  Speaker 2: nice and just trying to be the nice guy. It
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  Speaker 2: just really makes you upset, you know, yeah, for sure,
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  Speaker 2: all right, well, this is their moral to the story
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  Speaker 2: at all, The.
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  Speaker 1: Moral to the story.
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  Speaker 3: This is gonna be a never ending conversation, but that's
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  Speaker 3: what the Breakfast Club is here for. The Breakfast Club
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  Speaker 3: is here to have those conversations, okay, and we'll bring
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  Speaker 3: in people way smarter than us to tell us what
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  Speaker 3: these guardrails are, and what these tools are, what these
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  Speaker 3: tools are that they can use and try to slow
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  Speaker 3: some of this stuff down.
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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club