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Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Was Ugly · 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: Wednesday morning, a fifteenth day of January. I'm wes, thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. Are we halfway through January? Pretty much
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Speaker 2: at this point? How'd that happen? I don't know. It's
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Speaker 2: happening quickly already, isn't it. But we're zipping on along,
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Speaker 2: hurt your neck, zipping right along. As my good friend
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Speaker 2: Scott Miller would say with me on the radio for
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Speaker 2: many many years, we're here in the midst now and
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Speaker 2: the throes of these confirmation hearings that have now begun. Definitely,
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Speaker 2: this high profile one yesterday was the Pete Hegseth confirmation
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Speaker 2: hearing as the President Alex pick to run the Department
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Speaker 2: of Defense. The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hexeth, who yes,
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Speaker 2: was on Fox News for a long time, but yes,
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Speaker 2: has a long military career, has combat experience. I think
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Speaker 2: one of the things that he certainly would bring to
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Speaker 2: the table is someone who served many deployments and actually
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Speaker 2: saw combat, saw bullets go by, saw friends that he
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Speaker 2: lost over the years serving alongside him as he served
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Speaker 2: in the military. Is he the best pick to run
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Speaker 2: the Department of Defense. I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if he's the best pick or not.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that anybody is the best pick. There
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Speaker 2: have been people in the past that have served in
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Speaker 2: that role and I've thought, Wow, this is one who
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Speaker 2: would be great at this, and then not so much.
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Speaker 2: There have been people that I thought, Wow, this person
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Speaker 2: would probably be terrible at it, and you know, I
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Speaker 2: never thought about them again. If these people are doing
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Speaker 2: their job properly, I think often we don't really hear
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Speaker 2: a whole lot about them. Right, they do their job,
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Speaker 2: especially this role, and we enjoy those comforts in the
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Speaker 2: blanket of protection that comes and when we thank our military,
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Speaker 2: when we think folks serving, the families of those that serve,
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Speaker 2: we often don't even think about the Secretary of Defense.
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Speaker 2: And it's a bit unfortunate, but I feel like in
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Speaker 2: many cases, in many of these cabinet positions, if you're
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Speaker 2: doing your job well, we don't really talk about you
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Speaker 2: a whole lot. I mean, that seems to be the
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Speaker 2: case now. Just because we're talking about you doesn't mean
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Speaker 2: you're not doing your job well. But I do think
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Speaker 2: that many of them over the years. We just haven't
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Speaker 2: talked about him at all. We have one now who
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Speaker 2: just kind of disappeared for a while, and we don't
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Speaker 2: really know. I mean, we do know, but we don't
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Speaker 2: know at what point he fell off the radar. But
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Speaker 2: he was sick and you know, hospitalized, and for some reason,
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Speaker 2: no one thought it was important to alert everyone that
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Speaker 2: that was the case. But that's another story altogether. Pete
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Speaker 2: hex Seth. The accusation from the left is that he's
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Speaker 2: not qualified. The accusation from the left is that he
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Speaker 2: is only getting this attention and this nod because he's
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Speaker 2: friends with Donald Trump. Probably some truth to that. I
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Speaker 2: would think there's some element of truth to that. How
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Speaker 2: many times have we seen folks get nominated to positions
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Speaker 2: because they have a good relationship with the person who
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Speaker 2: has nominated them for those positions. There's a trust there.
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Speaker 2: I think there's a mutual trust there between the two,
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Speaker 2: and I think that that's not necessarily a bad thing. Again,
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Speaker 2: I don't know if he's the best possible person for
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Speaker 2: the position. I don't know. I know that the hearings
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Speaker 2: yesterday told us nothing. They told us that most of
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Speaker 2: the Republicans would give him an opportunity to answer questions.
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Speaker 2: Most of the Democrats did not. Many of the Democrats
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Speaker 2: decided to make it very very personal. Heg Seth has
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Speaker 2: apparently in the past had issues with alcohol. He has
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Speaker 2: apparently in the past had some family issues. I don't
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Speaker 2: know how much of them are accurate. I don't know
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Speaker 2: how much of them are inaccurate. I do know that
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Speaker 2: former vice presidential candidate Timkin decided to go after heg
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Speaker 2: Seth in a very inappropriate way during the hearing and
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Speaker 2: started to basically question his infidelity. Questioned, I mean this
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Speaker 2: is a quote he says. After Hegseth said that he
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Speaker 2: had been cleared on any of those charges he was
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Speaker 2: accused of, investigated and cleared. Cain said, So you think
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Speaker 2: you're completely cleared because you committed no crime. That's your
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Speaker 2: definition of cleared. You had just fathered a child two
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Speaker 2: months before by a woman that was not your wife.
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Speaker 2: I'm shocked that you would stand here and say you're
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Speaker 2: completely cleared. Can you so casually cheat on a second
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Speaker 2: wife and cheat on the mother of a child who
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Speaker 2: had been born two months prior, and you tell us
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Speaker 2: you're completely cleared. How is this completely cleared? And by
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Speaker 2: the way, the kid was there. Heg Seth made a
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Speaker 2: point to call her by name and tell everyone what
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Speaker 2: her name is a senator. Her child's name is Gwendolen
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Speaker 2: Hope Hegseeth, and she's a child of God. She's seven
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Speaker 2: years old and I'm glad she's here. Caine didn't back
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Speaker 2: off from that. And you cheated on the mother of
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Speaker 2: that child less than two months after that daughter was born,
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Speaker 2: didn't you. This is way out of line. This is
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Speaker 2: way out of line. I understand if you want to
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Speaker 2: make this a character issue and you want to say
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Speaker 2: heg Seth is currently, you know, doing some sort of
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Speaker 2: deviant sexual practices, but we're talking about he's with his
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Speaker 2: wife that he's been with for a while now, who
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Speaker 2: stood by him through these things. She was there in
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Speaker 2: the room. He acknowledged her a few times. But it's interesting,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. How Tim Kaine ran for president for vice
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Speaker 2: president with the candidate for president, which was Hill Clinton,
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Speaker 2: by the way, who still is married to Bill Clinton.
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Speaker 2: A lot of hypocrisy. Some of the hypocrisy was called
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Speaker 2: out during the hearing as it basically turned and it
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Speaker 2: got really nasty it got really, really nasty. Ultimately, questions
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Speaker 2: coming from some of the Republican senators. Hey, you're telling
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Speaker 2: me that you haven't voted in this chamber with people
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Speaker 2: who also cheated on their wives or people who've been
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Speaker 2: drunk or had drinking problems. These are all fair questions.
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Speaker 2: I mean, don't you think that's a fair question to
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Speaker 2: at least call it out. It was Senator Mullen from Oklahoma,
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Speaker 2: by the way, hypocritical, he says. I think it's hypocritical
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Speaker 2: of senators, especially on the other side, to be talking
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Speaker 2: about his qualifications and yet your qualifications aren't any. He
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Speaker 2: went through and was asking what are the specific qualifications
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Speaker 2: to be a senator and the specific qualifications to be
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Speaker 2: the Secretary of Defense, he says. Senator Kane, who he
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Speaker 2: was addressing, or I guess I better use the senator
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Speaker 2: from Virginia. They're not allowed to do personal attacks, I guess.
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Speaker 2: Starts bringing up the fact that if you showed up
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Speaker 2: drunk on your job, how many senators have showed up
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Speaker 2: for drunk, showed up drunk to vote at night? Have
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Speaker 2: any of you asked them to step down or resign
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Speaker 2: from their job? And don't tell me you haven't seen it,
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Speaker 2: because I know that you have. And how many senators
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Speaker 2: do you know have got a divorce for cheating on
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Speaker 2: their wives? Did you ask them to step down? No,
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Speaker 2: you guys, make sure make a big show and point
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Speaker 2: out the hypocrisy because a man's made a mistake and
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Speaker 2: you want to sit there and say that he's not qualified.
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Speaker 2: He says, give me a joke. I think he might
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Speaker 2: give me a break. It is so ridiculous that you
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Speaker 2: guys hold yourself at this higher standard. You forget you
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Speaker 2: got that big play in your eye. And then he
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Speaker 2: gave him an opportunity to acknowledge. HeiG seth an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to acknowledge his wife, which he did. And then Mullan
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Speaker 2: also said, the only reason why I'm here not in
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Speaker 2: prison is because my wife loved me too. I have changed,
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Speaker 2: but I am not perfect. And you know these this
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Speaker 2: was just part of the show. This was part of
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Speaker 2: the show that went on. We did see some tough
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Speaker 2: questions coming from some Republicans. We did see Joni Ernst
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Speaker 2: asking questions about women serving in combat situations. She is
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Speaker 2: one of the Republicans who there was a question was
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Speaker 2: she going to vote for heg Seth. Would she go
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Speaker 2: in that direction? She now says that she will. She
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Speaker 2: says that she's basically says she wasn't sure to begin with.
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Speaker 2: And part of those questions did come from whether or
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Speaker 2: not women would have an opportunity to serve in combat situations.
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Speaker 2: So that answers one of the questions that's been floating
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Speaker 2: around out there. It was about Ernest and how she
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Speaker 2: was going to vote. There were some other issues as well.
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Speaker 2: We had a couple of senators who decided just to
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Speaker 2: shout at Pete hagg Seth, one in particular, that I
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Speaker 2: don't necessarily have high hopes once you gauge that this
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Speaker 2: isn't really about are you qualified or what are you
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Speaker 2: going to do? Once you realize that this is they're
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Speaker 2: shouting things at heg Seth that they'd like to shout
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Speaker 2: at Trump after winning. They're also jockeying for some sort
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Speaker 2: of profile so that maybe in four years they'll get
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Speaker 2: a chance to run. I mean, that's ultimately what starts
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Speaker 2: to happen is there's nobody waiting in the wings. The
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Speaker 2: one person who was maybe kind of waiting in the
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Speaker 2: wings is the governor of a state that's still on fire,
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Speaker 2: and he's looking worse by the minute. Is unqualified, uncapable,
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Speaker 2: and not somebody that you would want leading a country.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know that that candidacy has already ruined itself.
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Speaker 2: So I didn't ruin itself. It's his own doing. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I think that's a fair assessment for that. So they're
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Speaker 2: really looking for who's going to be the next one
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Speaker 2: to step up, who's going to be the one that's
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Speaker 2: going to be ready to lead. And then you start getting,
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Speaker 2: you know, some people that maybe could possibly run down
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Speaker 2: the line, and they start shouting at him because they
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Speaker 2: have to start trying to make a name for themselves.
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Speaker 2: That's what they have to make some sort of attempt
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Speaker 2: at doing. And that's what we saw, and it was embarrassing.
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Speaker 2: It's embarrassing. You can't ask someone question, not let them answer,
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Speaker 2: and really sort of jockey to put them in their place.
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Speaker 2: The one that really sort of disappointed me. And once
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Speaker 2: you kind of get the tone of where it's going,
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Speaker 2: you know, they're just gonna yell at each other, or
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Speaker 2: not even yell at each other, they're just gonna yell
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Speaker 2: at him, and he has to just sit there and
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Speaker 2: take it, and that was Mark Kelly. As Mark Kelly
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Speaker 2: sat there and pretended he was giving Hegseeth an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to answer some questions so that he might be able
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Speaker 2: to vote for him, and then in the end read
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Speaker 2: the pre written statement about how he wasn't going to
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Speaker 2: vote for him because he wouldn't answer his questions, a
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Speaker 2: pre written statement while pretending that he hadn't made up
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Speaker 2: his mind yet. It's laughable. It's really a joke. Get
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Speaker 2: ready because this will go on and on and on.
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Speaker 2: Yea heg Seth this certainly. I guess we can just
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Speaker 2: be thankful that we didn't have to go through this
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Speaker 2: with Gates. I feel like if we'd had Gates going
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Speaker 2: through this process, it would have been really ugly. So
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Speaker 2: this was already ugly, and it was really just about
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Speaker 2: they're mad at Trump, they're mad at Fox News, and
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Speaker 2: they just wanted to take their shots and go from there.
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Speaker 2: I want to talk quickly about the inauguration because we're
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Speaker 2: getting closer and closer to the twentieth at noon, and
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Speaker 2: Carrie Underwood is going to be performing America the Beautiful
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Speaker 2: at the inauguration, and she says that she's hoping that
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Speaker 2: performing there will give the country an opportunity to come
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Speaker 2: together and maybe, you know, start figuring out how to
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Speaker 2: work together and have a little civility with one another. Well,
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Speaker 2: apparently her name being on this ticket did not sit
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Speaker 2: well with joy Behar, and she says that she says
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Speaker 2: she says, I love our country. How do you love
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Speaker 2: our country and support normalize somebody who was a convicted
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Speaker 2: felon who really wants to destroy the country. In my opinion,
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Speaker 2: I don't understand how you say you love your country
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Speaker 2: at the same time that you normalize this convicted felon.
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Speaker 2: In the defense of the show, one of the other
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Speaker 2: co hosts on the show, Alissa Farrah Griffin, basically said,
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Speaker 2: you know a lot of people voted for Trump and
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Speaker 2: they love our country. So I mean, I think you
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Speaker 2: have to take a step back at some point and
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Speaker 2: say you get an opportunity and you perform. Sonny Houston,
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Speaker 2: hostin I don't know how to say her name, I've
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Speaker 2: never known, says She respected her for it and said,
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Speaker 2: I think art is art and you have the right
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Speaker 2: to perform where you want to perform. She says, I
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Speaker 2: agree with you. I can't sing a lick and I've
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Speaker 2: not been asked, but if I were asked, it would
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Speaker 2: be hard not to, which is a nice sentiment. Woiop
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Speaker 2: be Goldberg also on board. People do what they do
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Speaker 2: for whatever reasons, and she said, you know, people do
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Speaker 2: what they got to do, all right, and then she referenced,
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Speaker 2: I guess people go into Moro Lago and kissing the
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Speaker 2: perform at an inauguration. It's a big deal, especially this one.
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Speaker 2: It's a big one. I mean, I told you I
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Speaker 2: watched Obama being sworn in, didn't vote for him, didn't
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Speaker 2: you are renting. Typically unless it's a home, might not
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Speaker 2: be the case. All right, let's talk about how to
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Speaker 2: get healthy in twenty twenty five. According to a new survey,
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Speaker 2: Americans only give themselves six out of ten on the
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Speaker 2: healthiness scale, which is probably why ninety percent say that
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Speaker 2: they have a health related resolution for the new year.
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Speaker 2: So what are those resolutions? Fifty three percent said that
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Speaker 2: they want to work out more, forty nine percent said
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Speaker 2: they want to be at a healthy weight, twenty nine
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Speaker 2: percent said they need to get outdoors more often, twenty
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Speaker 2: six percent said they want to make sleep a priority,
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Speaker 2: and another twenty six percent said that they would work
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Speaker 2: to improve their digestion and gut health. That's a very specific,
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Speaker 2: like they've seen a commercial. I think for you to
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Speaker 2: pick that out, I feel like there's a commercial involved.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. It just seems like one of those
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Speaker 2: like maybe they watched Jamie Lee Curtis back in the
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Speaker 2: day and they were like, ah, I need to get
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Speaker 2: my gut help where it needs to be. And following
23:43
Speaker 2: along that line, other things that people think that they
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Speaker 2: need to. The trends say that people will be doing
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Speaker 2: cutting out processed foods, working on healthy aging using wearable technology.
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Speaker 2: I mean people are doing that already, aren't they functional
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Speaker 2: approach to health using AI to help improve their health care,
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Speaker 2: working on their metabolism. That's that's always one of those
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Speaker 2: challenging ones, isn't it switching to gluten free, vegetarian or vegan,
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Speaker 2: and some even going on the carnivore diet. Would you
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Speaker 2: say that dating is more difficult now than it was
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Speaker 2: even twenty years ago or ten years ago. Well back
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, just five years ago, Pure Research put
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Speaker 2: out a pole saying that almost half of single adults
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Speaker 2: find that dating is harder than ten years earlier. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if that means for the person who's now
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Speaker 2: ten years older. I mean that might make it harder
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Speaker 2: depending on what age you started at. I guess not
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Speaker 2: everybody can be a you know, silver fox. So someone
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Speaker 2: apparently just discovered the poll posted on social media, and
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Speaker 2: we're asking questions about is it harder to date now?
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Speaker 2: And the explanation kind of makes sense. People say, hard
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Speaker 2: to find places to meet people. It's kind of an
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Speaker 2: anti social, defensive, post COVID world that we're in in
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Speaker 2: some places. I also say that maybe the apps are
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Speaker 2: not overly conducive to meeting someone. And then the apps
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Speaker 2: also mean that there's a lot of options, a lot
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Speaker 2: of swiping left or right, and maybe people get lost
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Speaker 2: in the shuffle and don't get a great opportunity to
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Speaker 2: actually connect with those people because there's so many options there.
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Speaker 2: And then if the app's not very good at connecting people,
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Speaker 2: and then people also say that they're just relying too
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Speaker 2: much on apps, too much of the app reliance, and
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Speaker 2: that makes it harder. And then also that entertainment at
25:53
Speaker 2: home alone has become much easier and better than it's
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Speaker 2: ever been. I mean, and jump on a streaming service
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Speaker 2: and you know, just start binging something. Sometimes people just
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Speaker 2: get lost in that and they lose interest in getting
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Speaker 2: on one of those dating apps. I don't know that'll
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