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Wicked Radio 4-18: FSU Aftermath, Awareness Mindset, & A 4/20 Easter?! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: Never completely understood why they call it good Friday. But
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Speaker 1: here we are. It's good Friday, it's Easter weekend. It's
0:09
Speaker 1: not all good news, obviously, and a terrible way to
0:11
Speaker 1: start when we talk about something like another campus shooting,
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Speaker 1: but there's something in the takeaway on this one. We're
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Speaker 1: not completely helpless. We're really not. We're got to stop
0:21
Speaker 1: being surprised by this kind of stuff. But if anything,
0:24
Speaker 1: you want to take anything out of something like what
0:26
Speaker 1: happened at FSUV yesterday, it's what you can learn about
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Speaker 1: mindset and awareness and if you're like me, and even
0:32
Speaker 1: though my kids are in the twenties now, stuff's been
0:34
Speaker 1: going on a long time, and how to talk to
0:35
Speaker 1: them about it. So we'll get into that as well.
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Speaker 1: But it's not all bad news. It is Holy weekend.
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Speaker 1: If your participt, we just got off passover heading into
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Speaker 1: Easter weekend. It is good Friday, all that good stuff,
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Speaker 1: and we'll light it up towards the end. Here we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about what also happens on Sunday, Easter coinciding with
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Speaker 1: four to twenty. I think you know where I'm going
0:57
Speaker 1: with that, but give us a new character. Here comes
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Speaker 1: Peter cotton Mouth. All right, never mind, I promise I'll
1:04
Speaker 1: never try to sing for you again. All right. First
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Speaker 1: of all, a little bit of nuts and bolts business here. Thanks,
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Speaker 1: thanks for finding me. Wicked Radio live stream all part
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Speaker 1: and on the socials, on YouTube and on Facebook as well.
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Speaker 1: But let's get into it. Okay, we all heard the news.
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Speaker 1: Another another We shouldn't call it shocking anymore because violence
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Speaker 1: is everywhere. Another school shooting on the campus of FSU
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Speaker 1: and Tallahassee. Well, let's go right to the press conference
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Speaker 1: in the Leon County Sheriffs.
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Speaker 2: The shooter is twenty year old Phoenix Ecknerier and he's
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Speaker 2: a son of a Leon County Sheriff deputy.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine an officer of the law. And I
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Speaker 1: guess she's an eighteen year veteran outstanding service record. We
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Speaker 1: all know about her. But this lunatic kid, unhinged kid,
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Speaker 1: got ahold of a couple of her weapons. I guess
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Speaker 1: there was a handgun and a shotgun involved.
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Speaker 2: In this yas a tremendous job that she's done. Her
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Speaker 2: service to this community has been exceptional. Unfortunately, her son
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Speaker 2: had access to one of her weapons and that was
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Speaker 2: one of the weapons. That's what's found at the scene.
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Speaker 1: So as we know, multiple injured, couple did die. You know,
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Speaker 1: there are a couple of people that looked really bad
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Speaker 1: in some of the video here, and we'll get into
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Speaker 1: that in a second, did survive. So that's the good news.
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Speaker 1: But you know, another senseless, stupid, disgusting tragedy, obviously. But
2:34
Speaker 1: here's what we can't do, my friends, here's what we
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Speaker 1: can't do anymore. All right. We can't start saying, oh god,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure shocked by this. Stop just stop with that,
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Speaker 1: because that's that's gone. We're over got to stop getting
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Speaker 1: over being shocked. And that's part of the problem why
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Speaker 1: people aren't aware of situations like this and why they're
2:52
Speaker 1: not getting the right kind of takeaway from this kind
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Speaker 1: of thing. The first thing they will teach anybody, pick
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Speaker 1: any format you want, any style, any school, you want,
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Speaker 1: any self defense program. The first thing they're going to
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Speaker 1: teach you is your mindset to be aware of violence
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Speaker 1: is everywhere and it just is anywhere, can happen now,
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Speaker 1: can happen later when always, when you're not fully planning
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Speaker 1: for it right any school, campus, safe zones, gun free zones.
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Speaker 1: We know this now, there's too much about there's decades
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Speaker 1: of violence on record where we know it can happen anywhere, anytime,
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Speaker 1: any place. And I get it. I get the argument
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Speaker 1: where most people will tell you and this isn't about
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Speaker 1: the politics of it and who it is or whatever whatever,
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Speaker 1: because that's never going to find a solution. But you're
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Speaker 1: not completely helpless in this, And I get it. I'm
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Speaker 1: with you because this has been going on so long,
3:45
Speaker 1: even though my kids are in the twenties now, it's
3:47
Speaker 1: been going on so long we had to have this talk,
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Speaker 1: as you probably have to or are having right now
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Speaker 1: with kids or anybody in a social situation at a
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Speaker 1: very young age, to talk about about awareness. I think
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Speaker 1: that bothers me the most is still with all these
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Speaker 1: incidents we've seen college campuses, even worse, elementary schools, public settings,
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Speaker 1: church at you know, religious places, whatever, these kinds of
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Speaker 1: acts of violence happened. The thing that bothers me even
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Speaker 1: more than that is how many even friends of mine,
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Speaker 1: you know, people I talk to, well, you know, people
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Speaker 1: on social media. You hear this comment way too much. Well,
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Speaker 1: what can you do? You can't do anything about that.
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Speaker 1: First of all, listen, I understand, and I get the argument.
4:27
Speaker 1: That's a fair point. There's a lot of situations where
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Speaker 1: you're just like if you were ambushed or violence on
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Speaker 1: the street, or if you were carjacked or something. You
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Speaker 1: can't completely you can't completely prepare for every possible situation.
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Speaker 1: But what you can do is change your mindset to
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Speaker 1: understand that it's everywhere and at least raise your awareness
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Speaker 1: level that this kind of stuff can happen. Right case inpoint,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you all saw this video, which this is
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Speaker 1: really just as disturbing as this story was. Did you
4:58
Speaker 1: see the video posted everywhere? In the still shots of it,
5:01
Speaker 1: looked like a girl I'm not too sure, walking by
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Speaker 1: one of the FSU victims with a It looked like
5:06
Speaker 1: an iced coffee like walking by and filming. Well, he
5:12
Speaker 1: or she or whatever it was was walking by. To
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Speaker 1: my point, unawareness, How aware do you think that person
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Speaker 1: was so desensitized by this stuff and so not aware
5:21
Speaker 1: and you see it all the time. I see it everywhere,
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Speaker 1: and it's not just kids. They get unfairly blamed for
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Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. Go your average restaurants, supermarket, just
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Speaker 1: public people. You're walking on the street, how often do
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Speaker 1: you see this? People on their phone and just not
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Speaker 1: paying attention and looking down and not aware, not aware
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Speaker 1: of this situation. That's not to say you have to
5:38
Speaker 1: be an absolute paranoid, you know, sketchy person who always
5:42
Speaker 1: think they're going to be attacked. That's the opposite what
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Speaker 1: we're talking about here, that you don't want to be
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Speaker 1: that person either. But there's a certain level of awareness
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Speaker 1: that you can have in your mindset. And I'll go
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Speaker 1: back to that, say, have gone through all that training,
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Speaker 1: I understand it. So it's it's it's it's burned into
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Speaker 1: my it's burned into my brain, this situational awareness. It
6:02
Speaker 1: just is because they've had the training for it. I
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Speaker 1: just have. That's part of my background. But anybody can
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Speaker 1: do it. And I'll give you an example what you
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Speaker 1: can do, even with especially with little kids, because the
6:11
Speaker 1: worst thing you want to do is to talk to
6:13
Speaker 1: them and talk about them, you know, you talk them
6:17
Speaker 1: into fear of all situations, because that's going to make
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Speaker 1: people shut down. But what you do is get them
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Speaker 1: into this mindset that you have to be aware. Get
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Speaker 1: off your phone, don't have your face and your phone
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Speaker 1: all times, especially not driving of course, or walking around
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Speaker 1: and being aware of all these situations and a great
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Speaker 1: thing to do. And I'll give you this tip when
6:34
Speaker 1: if they are young, to get them into this without
6:37
Speaker 1: scaring them is play a game. In every public situation
6:39
Speaker 1: you go to, sitting down at a duncan or another restaurant,
6:43
Speaker 1: or any kind of situation or a waiting room, just
6:45
Speaker 1: play a game. Say okay, where are the exits. It's
6:49
Speaker 1: a great thing with little little kids to do where
6:50
Speaker 1: the exits? Always be aware of all the exits no
6:54
Speaker 1: matter what situation you're in. Weapons of opportunity, like if
6:58
Speaker 1: something did happen, you could grab a chair, you this,
7:00
Speaker 1: you can do that, places to run to if they're
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Speaker 1: really little people, the adults you can run to for help.
7:09
Speaker 1: You're not completely helpless. Again, I get the argument that
7:13
Speaker 1: you can't prepare for everything, but you can definitely raise
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Speaker 1: your mindset, and you can do it even with even
7:17
Speaker 1: with kids and college kids. But to so many people
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Speaker 1: now that I see all the time that you want
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Speaker 1: to shelter away from this, and then they pretend to
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Speaker 1: be shocked when something like FSU happens. You can't be
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Speaker 1: You're not completely helpless, but you have to change your mindset.
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Speaker 1: We all do no more of this. We're all it's
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Speaker 1: another shocking school campus shooting. Now, it's not shocking, not
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Speaker 1: at all if you have people who are so radicalized.
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Speaker 1: And there's so much crazy shit happening in the media
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Speaker 1: right now, left and right. I don't care. It's not
7:43
Speaker 1: about politics. Everybody is so hyper sensitized about everything, and
7:48
Speaker 1: everything is to the extreme, and you know, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: fight this with violence, So we're gonna do this. These
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Speaker 1: are crazy, insane ass times right now, and you've got
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Speaker 1: to be aware for it. And everybody, I don't care
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Speaker 1: what age you are, I don't care if you have
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Speaker 1: kids or not. You can raise their level of awareness
8:03
Speaker 1: just to be aware of this kind of stuff. And
8:04
Speaker 1: here's the most important tip of all in the takeaway.
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Speaker 1: Stop telling kids not to be judgmental. That's the stupidest
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Speaker 1: thing we ever tried to do as parents. Well you know, hey,
8:14
Speaker 1: you know what if your kids came home from school
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Speaker 1: one day, you know, little Johnny is like he's saying
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Speaker 1: some really crazy stuff. Mom, I'm a little aware of him.
8:21
Speaker 1: Here's the worst thing you can say as a parent,
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Speaker 1: And I learned this the hard way. Well, honey, don't
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Speaker 1: judge little Johnny. You don't know what he's going through.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, let's go over that. Let's
8:30
Speaker 1: go over two things. Stop being shocked by violence in society,
8:33
Speaker 1: and stop telling kids to not judge anybody. That's a
8:38
Speaker 1: bunch of crap. Go ahead and judge away. It doesn't
8:41
Speaker 1: mean I have to rat on anybody. But if you're
8:43
Speaker 1: able to ascertain which people are probably threats around you
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Speaker 1: in your daily life. And kids know this full well,
8:49
Speaker 1: they absolutely do. Tell them to be more aware of
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Speaker 1: that person. You don't have to rat on them. You
8:55
Speaker 1: don't have to hide from that person, but you can
8:57
Speaker 1: keep an extra eye on him. And you know what,
8:59
Speaker 1: get over the guilt of thing. There's anything wrong with that,
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Speaker 1: Absolutely not, there's no way because you hear it again
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Speaker 1: and in this kid's case with the shooter at FSU,
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Speaker 1: not only the sheriff's deputy Sun, but a member of
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Speaker 1: the community and a fine upstanding and in all this
9:13
Speaker 1: training and was very you know, Okay, Yeah, there's other
9:16
Speaker 1: classmates saying that he was saying some crazy shit in
9:20
Speaker 1: our breakout sessions in our political science classes. What's wrong
9:23
Speaker 1: with keeping an eye on that person? Absolutely nothing. Go
9:26
Speaker 1: ahead and Jay, what okay? So you're stuck in a
9:28
Speaker 1: class with that person, you could say the hell away
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Speaker 1: from him the best you possibly can. Awareness is the takeaway.
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Speaker 1: You're not completely helpless in all these situations. Let's just
9:37
Speaker 1: gotta stop getting over the shock of this stuff. Though,
9:40
Speaker 1: No more, no more of that. I just hope these
9:42
Speaker 1: kids are going to be all right. There is another thing.
9:45
Speaker 1: It's not all bad. It's also good Friday. Obviously, we'll
9:47
Speaker 1: talk about that as well. Coming up a little bit.
9:49
Speaker 1: Here's another confusing thing that happened. This is just a
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Speaker 1: little bit of news that I was very confused about
9:54
Speaker 1: last night as well, and you may be too. We've
9:56
Speaker 1: talked about it all week long. And I'll use the
9:59
Speaker 1: mainstream media description of him, the Maryland father of three,
10:03
Speaker 1: mistakenly deported and of course we turned out he was
10:06
Speaker 1: a wife Peter. He had been questioned about human trafficking
10:09
Speaker 1: before we know he's it confirmed by two previous judges,
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Speaker 1: a confirmed MS thirteen gang member. He is in L. Salvador.
10:19
Speaker 1: We know that much. We know that the senator. We
10:21
Speaker 1: talked about him a lot past couple of days. Chris
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Speaker 1: van Holland from Maryland, he went to El Salvador to
10:27
Speaker 1: try to talk to him. He tried to talk to
10:28
Speaker 1: the president, got rejected, and he wanted to talk to
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Speaker 1: this gang member. Even though this same senator didn't talk
10:34
Speaker 1: to parents of victims of illegal violency. You know, he
10:38
Speaker 1: didn't bother to do that. But he's making a martyr
10:40
Speaker 1: of this guy. And then yesterday, lo and behold, we
10:42
Speaker 1: see the pictures come out of Chris van Holland, the
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Speaker 1: Senator sitting down with the MS thirteen member from Maryland
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Speaker 1: and they're having drinks and they're having a nice discussion
10:55
Speaker 1: while the L. Salvador and officials were there in the background.
10:57
Speaker 1: And I like, you were very confused by this. I'm like,
11:01
Speaker 1: did Trump get completely conned by this? Is he actually
11:04
Speaker 1: going to bring this guy back to the States. And
11:06
Speaker 1: it's a massive win for not only this senator but
11:10
Speaker 1: anybody opposed to deporting criminal aliens? Like is this? So?
11:17
Speaker 1: I was confused too. Here's what I found out I
11:23
Speaker 1: really think And you may not even like maybe you
11:26
Speaker 1: don't like this administration though, maybe it didn't vote for Trump.
11:29
Speaker 1: Maybe you can't stand him, maybe you can't stand the policy.
11:32
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't like the deportation policy, maybe you don't.
11:34
Speaker 3: Like the wall.
11:35
Speaker 1: But if there's if there's anything that we can all
11:39
Speaker 1: learn from this administration. My god, did they play the
11:42
Speaker 1: publicity game right? I mean this, this, this could have
11:47
Speaker 1: been absolutely brilliant when I saw this post this morning
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Speaker 1: from the president of L Salvador, uh bu Kelly. Here
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Speaker 1: he is posted the pictures of the MS thirteen gang
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Speaker 1: member with the good Senator and he said Kilmer Abredego
12:05
Speaker 1: Garcia miraculously risen from the death camps in torture, now
12:09
Speaker 1: sipping Margarita's with the Senator. And then he followed up
12:12
Speaker 1: that post by saying, now that he's been confirmed healthy,
12:15
Speaker 1: he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody.
12:20
Speaker 1: Four That might be five D chess. How that was done.
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Speaker 1: So after all this, what they were able to do
12:28
Speaker 1: was show and get rid of the argument that this
12:32
Speaker 1: MS thirteen gang member is unfairly being treated so far
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Speaker 1: in L Salvador. And they also confirmed that he's not
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Speaker 1: coming home at all. At all, because we were all
12:43
Speaker 1: like this last night. We were all confused that we
12:45
Speaker 1: were all upset by this, going, oh my god, why
12:47
Speaker 1: is this? Why is El Salvador treating this MS thirteen?
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Speaker 1: Are they gonna send him home? Is this gonna happen?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 1: I don't think so. But the initial reaction was like
12:55
Speaker 1: you and me and everybody else. In that Scott Jennings
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Speaker 1: character on CNN, he said the same thing.
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Speaker 3: And while the American left falls in love with the
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Speaker 3: worst people, you've got a gangbanging, human trafficking, wife beating
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Speaker 3: illegal alien and a United States senator and a ludicrous
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Speaker 3: display of energy is in El Salvador having my ties
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Speaker 3: and yance. I do not get it.
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Speaker 1: I do not we get it now though, and I
13:17
Speaker 1: bet you Scott got it the whole time. What they
13:21
Speaker 1: just accomplished, what they managed to do this was brilliant.
13:26
Speaker 1: They made the Democrats make an MS thirteen gang member
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Speaker 1: their martyr, and now the Democrats are tied to criminal
13:34
Speaker 1: alien gangs forever. They actually backed him into a corner.
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Speaker 1: I had read this earlier in the week. I didn't
13:42
Speaker 1: think it was true. I'm starting to think it's true
13:43
Speaker 1: now that the administration actually held off what they knew
13:46
Speaker 1: about this Maryland gang member, the MS thirteen guy who
13:50
Speaker 1: was now an El Salvador. It held off all the
13:52
Speaker 1: information until this senator got down there. When he was
13:56
Speaker 1: down there, they released that there were domestic violence charges
13:58
Speaker 1: against him, information of him as thirteen ties, and that
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Speaker 1: he had been stopped for human trafficking. Now they're stuck.
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Speaker 1: They backed them into a corner. I think they actually
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Speaker 1: really did it.
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Speaker 2: Boy.
14:09
Speaker 1: That's that's how you play the three D game. That
14:12
Speaker 1: is wild. And I feel better too. I don't think
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Speaker 1: the guy's coming back to Maryland. Excellent. That was good
14:18
Speaker 1: to hear. Wow, here's some more good news, all right,
14:20
Speaker 1: despite everything that's been tough in the news this week,
14:22
Speaker 1: and there's been a lot of bad stuff, let's not forget.
14:26
Speaker 1: That's also a holy weekend, should you participate? And we
14:29
Speaker 1: just got through Passover with my Jewish friends, and then
14:32
Speaker 1: we go into Easter weekend. Today's good Friday, even though
14:34
Speaker 1: I don't understand why they called it good. This is
14:36
Speaker 1: the day that killed him. Whatever it is. Easter weekend.
14:39
Speaker 1: Here's some fluff news for you. But something very interesting now.
14:43
Speaker 1: This survey comes out every single year. The top Eastern
14:46
Speaker 1: candy searches not by sales, but searches on Google every
14:51
Speaker 1: single year. Nothing really too surprising this year. There were
14:54
Speaker 1: some changes last year, but pretty much everything you would expect.
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Speaker 1: With the quality candy. It looks as though our favorite
15:04
Speaker 1: candies are number one, the good stuff. Maybe it's a
15:07
Speaker 1: sign that the economy is getting better. Reese's peanut butter
15:10
Speaker 1: eggs not inexpensive, but very quality. The traditional chocolate bunny
15:15
Speaker 1: is then there at number two. Cadbury cream eggs come
15:18
Speaker 1: in for second, then jelly beans, and then a little
15:22
Speaker 1: bit of a surprise, what's the fifth most popular candy
15:26
Speaker 1: this year? Gummies? And I hope we're talking about gummy
15:31
Speaker 1: bears and not something else because also remember what's happening
15:36
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Easter falls on. That's right, that's right, my friends.
15:44
Speaker 1: For twenty the traditional it's like Christmas for potheads. They've
15:48
Speaker 1: always celebrated four twenty to promote marijuana and everything else.
15:51
Speaker 1: But there's also some interesting there's also some interesting pot
15:55
Speaker 1: information that's come out. And you know, I'm not good
15:57
Speaker 1: at predictions, but I've thought this for a long time.
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Speaker 1: This we know when you and I have even talked
16:02
Speaker 1: about it. Alcohol sales, especially among young people millenniums, millennials
16:07
Speaker 1: and zoomers, is like way like. It's not a dip down,
16:11
Speaker 1: it's way down, like not only beer sales, but like
16:15
Speaker 1: hard liquor. Everything is like way down. Among that age group.
16:20
Speaker 1: Pot use is going way up, especially pot gummies CBD
16:26
Speaker 1: gummies right, which are very popular everywhere, and the potency
16:29
Speaker 1: is higher and it's cleaner and you'll have to put
16:30
Speaker 1: the smoke in your lungs. Here's my prediction what's gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: I think among that age group, pot use is only
16:37
Speaker 1: gonna go up, right, And I think among that age group,
16:42
Speaker 1: I think alcohol sales are still gonna go down. The
16:45
Speaker 1: whole entire alcohol industry. I think not the best of predictions,
16:49
Speaker 1: but just looking at the trends now for a few
16:51
Speaker 1: years running, I think it's this is a tough time
16:54
Speaker 1: to be in alcohol sales, for sure, But gummies are
16:59
Speaker 1: run the right and it is four twenty number one.
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Speaker 1: Do the right thing. Please make sure that your little
17:06
Speaker 1: kids in the easter candy hunt don't get a hold
17:08
Speaker 1: of the pot gummies. It's just the right check your gummies. Okay,
17:11
Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying make sure you don't mix up
17:12
Speaker 1: the two. It would be a good tip, but it's
17:15
Speaker 1: also given us a new Easter Christmas character. Here comes
17:20
Speaker 1: Peter cotton Mouth. All right with that, I'm certainly officially
17:25
Speaker 1: out of material, but it is Easter weekend. Enjoy it. Okay,
17:28
Speaker 1: there's a lot of crazy shit happening obviously with all
17:30
Speaker 1: that stuff, but that is the number one takeaway, and
17:31
Speaker 1: I'm dead serious about that. We got to stop being
17:34
Speaker 1: shocked by horrific violent shooting situations. Do what we can
17:39
Speaker 1: in society to prevent that, absolutely, and everybody's got their
17:41
Speaker 1: own opinions. Get over the mindset of being shocked, get
17:45
Speaker 1: into the mindset of preparedness as best you possibly can.
17:48
Speaker 1: You can't prepare for all situations, but you're not completely helpless,
17:52
Speaker 1: especially if you're also a parent with kids. Tell them
17:54
Speaker 1: to be aware in every possible situation. Get your face
17:58
Speaker 1: out of your phone, be aware, keep your head on
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Speaker 1: a swivel, and don't be afraid to judge people as well.
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Speaker 1: You're not completely helpless with this. You're not, but it's
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Speaker 1: time to talk about it for sure. That and don't
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Speaker 1: take any crap on anybody, especially on Holy weekend, Have
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Speaker 1: a great weekend, have a safety complete Victoria loved
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Speaker 3: Ones talking about that,