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The Third Commandment · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, twenty sixth day of January. I'm Wes. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. We are coming up on February fast,
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Speaker 2: aren't we. Man? Where did the month go? It's not
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Speaker 2: quite done yet, but we're coming up fast. The weather
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Speaker 2: has had a huge impact on most of the country.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of an understatement. That's like when
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Speaker 2: you're watching a game and they say, hey, that guy's
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Speaker 2: out he's got a knee. They go, well, I hope
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Speaker 2: he's got two knees. If he's playing sports like at
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Speaker 2: the NFL level, you know, I hope he's got two knees.
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Speaker 2: I hope he's got, you know, two elbows and two ankles.
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Speaker 2: He's out with an ankle. They're just cutting out a word.
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Speaker 2: I get it. They're just not saying the word injury
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Speaker 2: or whatever. They don't want to have to be specific
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Speaker 2: on what the injury is. But to say the weather
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Speaker 2: is affecting all the country, well, it always does, that's
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Speaker 2: what weather does. But severe weather. We've been in a
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Speaker 2: situation in Georgia yesterday where you know, it's wild to
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Speaker 2: think that there's a winter winter weather advisory, winter weather
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Speaker 2: warning and then also a tornado watch going on at
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Speaker 2: the same time. Yesterday. Kind of a wild place to
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Speaker 2: be in parts of the state. And I know this
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Speaker 2: is true in different parts of the country, but obviously,
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Speaker 2: depending on where you are, your day today is very different,
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Speaker 2: with many places reporting more than a foot of snow
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Speaker 2: fourteen sixteen inches. Whatever, it's wild, it's a wild thought. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: we weren't impacted here in the Chattahoochee Valley as expected,
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Speaker 2: and I say as expected because the weather changed pretty
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Speaker 2: draft clee over the last couple of weeks. There was
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Speaker 2: a point where it was going to be really bad
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Speaker 2: for us, much like it has been for the rest
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Speaker 2: of the country, and then it gradually just sort of
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Speaker 2: pushed its way up. I mean there was a point
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Speaker 2: where like south of us was gonna get hit more
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Speaker 2: than we were going to get hit, and the whole
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Speaker 2: thing just kind of made its way north. Now, obviously,
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Speaker 2: even if you're in an area that did not get
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Speaker 2: a lot of snow, you may be dealing still with
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Speaker 2: freezing temperatures and road conditions that aren't great. After a
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Speaker 2: lot of rain yesterday. So just be aware if your
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Speaker 2: employer or your school district or whatever has you going
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Speaker 2: in today and not working from home or not doing
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Speaker 2: one of those virtual days, well you need to just
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Speaker 2: be very careful if you have to go in anywhere,
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Speaker 2: and just know obviously icy roads can be a problem
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Speaker 2: and you're going to need a little bit more time
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Speaker 2: to get to work. And I don't do a lot
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Speaker 2: of weather here on this show because obviously we have
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Speaker 2: people that listen all around and we've got people in
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Speaker 2: parts of the country listening just laughing at the idea
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Speaker 2: of you know, ice on the roads shutting shutting things
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Speaker 2: down the way that it does for us here. And
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Speaker 2: I'll just remind you you guys don't do great when
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Speaker 2: it's hot. We deal with heat better than you guys do.
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Speaker 2: You guys deal with ice and snow better than we do.
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Speaker 2: It's just the way things are. You know, we handle heat,
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Speaker 2: We deal with that. We don't You're not going to
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Speaker 2: typically get a lot of situations where you know, you
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Speaker 2: guys are going it's one hundred degrees, what are we
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Speaker 2: supposed to do? And we're like, yeah, that's just called
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Speaker 2: you know, July and August that's what we call it.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, just be careful as you're making your way
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Speaker 2: anywhere you got to go. And if you're in a
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Speaker 2: place where you don't have to go anywhere, and don't
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Speaker 2: go anywhere, joy being shut in a little. If you've
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Speaker 2: got power and all those things. If you don't, obviously
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Speaker 2: that complicates things as well. But I can't do the
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Speaker 2: weather forecast for all the country. That's not what we're
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Speaker 2: going to do on a podcast. It's not going to
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Speaker 2: work that way this morning. So what I want to
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Speaker 2: talk about today is obviously we still have a lot
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Speaker 2: of craziness going on in Minneapolis and that part of
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Speaker 2: the country. And sadly, you know, and I don't take
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Speaker 2: pride in this, but I called this and you know,
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Speaker 2: as we started to kick off the year together and
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Speaker 2: I said, then we're getting into midterm election year. This
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Speaker 2: is when they want civil unrest. This is when they
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Speaker 2: want disorder. This is when they want chaos and panic
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Speaker 2: and anger and fear the biggest motivator to get you
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Speaker 2: to go to the box office. That's what they want.
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Speaker 2: They want you afraid, They want you angry at politicians,
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Speaker 2: they want you angry at your fellow citizens. That's what
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Speaker 2: they want. Both sides guilty of it to some degree,
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Speaker 2: but right now it's pretty apparent that you can see
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Speaker 2: that one side is kind of the motivating force on
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Speaker 2: this riot thing, this simple protest, whatever it's not. You're
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Speaker 2: in the face of law enforcement and you're resisting and
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Speaker 2: resisting arrests and all these things. And I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to comment on the second shooting that we've had because
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Speaker 2: they're going to have to do investigation on all that.
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Speaker 2: I know what we know, I know what we've been told,
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Speaker 2: I know what one side says, I know what the
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Speaker 2: other side says. Things have to play out and we
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Speaker 2: have to, you know, get to the bottom of it.
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Speaker 2: If you listen to one side and you say, well,
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Speaker 2: it is exactly as they say it was, and you
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Speaker 2: listen to the other side, and if you say, well,
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Speaker 2: if we're going to believe the people who are blowing
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Speaker 2: whistles and air horns in the faces of law enforcement,
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Speaker 2: it's I just don't understand and why we have decided
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Speaker 2: that doing hostile things towards law enforcement resulting in death
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Speaker 2: is somehow the fault of the people who are in
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Speaker 2: charge of carrying out the law. So what I want
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Speaker 2: to talk about today, though, is we've had this interesting
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Speaker 2: thing that's been taking place, and it's people that have
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Speaker 2: been invoking the name of Jesus when it comes to
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Speaker 2: protesting ice. I've seen a lot of it on social media.
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Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of it in news stories. I've
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Speaker 2: seen a lot of it popping up. And it's concerning
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Speaker 2: for a few reasons. Well, first of all, it's breaking
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Speaker 2: a commandment. Let's start with that. Let's start with this
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Speaker 2: whole notion of taking the Lord's name in vain. Let's
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Speaker 2: start with that, because a lot of people just assume
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Speaker 2: that means you're not supposed to say, you know, words
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Speaker 2: like GD and those kinds of things. I'm not an
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Speaker 2: advocate of that. I don't do that myself. I just
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Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's more disrespectful to me
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Speaker 2: than it is anything else. Maybe it falls under the
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Speaker 2: taking the Lord's name in vain commandment. Maybe it does,
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Speaker 2: maybe it doesn't. I see that commandment very much as
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Speaker 2: one that you know, we cannot invoke the name of
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Speaker 2: God for our purposes, like you're putting yourself, purporting yourself
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Speaker 2: to be something that you're not in order to try
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Speaker 2: to convince people that of whatever, that your side should
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Speaker 2: have something, or you should have something, or whatever. It
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Speaker 2: is pretending to be a minister, pretending to be an
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Speaker 2: advocate for Jesus in the name of civil unrest and
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Speaker 2: disorder in those kinds of things. And you know, I
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Speaker 2: have talked a lot about this over the years. I
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Speaker 2: think it especially is coming up now in this particular
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Speaker 2: case where we have this happening with people saying, well,
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Speaker 2: with immigration, Jesus would be pro immigrant, and then for
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Speaker 2: the following reasons, and they start laying things out and
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Speaker 2: look when you start saying and this has been the
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Speaker 2: latest I want to get specifically to the thing because
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Speaker 2: the thing that I have seen quoted a few times
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Speaker 2: is they say, you know, Jesus went into the temple
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Speaker 2: and he staged a protest, and he flipped a table
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Speaker 2: and he threw everybody out. And that's why you should
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Speaker 2: know that standing up to the police and ice is
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Speaker 2: to be like Jesus. Okay, my interpretation and my understanding
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Speaker 2: is fitting right into this. This is the danger that
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Speaker 2: we have allowed ourselves to get to when it comes
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Speaker 2: to churches, when it comes to an organized religion, you
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Speaker 2: hear people a lot say, I am a devout religious
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Speaker 2: Christian person. This is what I believe. However, the system
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Speaker 2: of the church or the organization of the church is
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Speaker 2: what I sometimes have a problem with. And I see
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Speaker 2: that more and more with people that tend churches that
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Speaker 2: have taken the Gospel, that have taken the message that
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Speaker 2: we're supposed to be there to receive, converted it into
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Speaker 2: something that they believe. You know, they're trying to use
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Speaker 2: the actual scriptures to just push whatever their agenda is.
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Speaker 2: And I say this all the time when it comes
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Speaker 2: to I say, if you're going to church and your
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Speaker 2: religion is dictating your politics, you're safe. You're safe if
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Speaker 2: you go in at a ground level and you say
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Speaker 2: this is what I believe, this is what I believe
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Speaker 2: to be true, and this is why I vote the
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Speaker 2: way that I vote. That's safe. If you take what
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Speaker 2: you vote, what your policies, your philosophy is on voting,
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Speaker 2: and you push that into your religion, into your faith,
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Speaker 2: and you change direct messages from the Bible, from the Gospel,
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Speaker 2: from even the church itself, and you say we're gonna
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Speaker 2: We're gonna say that because I believe this, this is
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Speaker 2: what the message of the Bible actually is, and you're
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Speaker 2: doing it wrong. You're doing it backwards. You can't go
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Speaker 2: into this and say this is what I want things
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Speaker 2: to be. This is what to me makes everybody feel,
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Speaker 2: you know, shiny happy people, kumbayaal let's all hug and
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Speaker 2: get along and pretend that there's no consequences for actions.
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Speaker 2: You can't pretend that there isn't a judgment that's coming
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Speaker 2: for all of us. Right, there's a judgment that's there. Now,
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Speaker 2: the question becomes, are you going to try to carry
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Speaker 2: your burdens with you across the finish line or are
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Speaker 2: you gonna let somebody else take those burdens on for you.
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Speaker 2: That's the Christian message. Let Jesus take the take the burdens,
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Speaker 2: and then you're gonna be fined across the finish line.
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Speaker 2: You're in. You've punched your ticket because you can't. You
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Speaker 2: can't like that's the message of the Christian faith and
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Speaker 2: it can't be I'm gonna carry this baggage with me
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Speaker 2: all the way across the finish line. This is what
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Speaker 2: I want to do. You know, Let's just let's push
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Speaker 2: the whole message and importance of the figurehead of the
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Speaker 2: Christian church. The person it's named for. Let's push him
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Speaker 2: aside and say, you know, this is what I want.
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Speaker 2: Let's change the whole, you know, branch of one particular denomination.
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Speaker 2: We're going to force everybody to believe what we believe
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Speaker 2: because it's not really what we've always gone with, but
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Speaker 2: we're changing it because we want it to be different.
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Speaker 2: We've gone through that in the last few years with
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Speaker 2: a few denominations, one big one in particular. You can't
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Speaker 2: take your politics and push it into your religion and
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Speaker 2: force your religion to believe that. And we've seen this
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Speaker 2: with leadership at major religion levels. We've seen this happen.
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Speaker 2: And you say, I don't think that's how it works.
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Speaker 2: And you have people who would never set foot in
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Speaker 2: a church, people who aren't believers, that are trying to
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Speaker 2: tell you and me what we're supposed to believe at church.
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Speaker 2: See that's what they do. And then those of us
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Speaker 2: that are actual Christians hear it, and we think, well,
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Speaker 2: this is what we should be taking into the church.
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Speaker 2: This is the difference that we should make. And they're
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Speaker 2: doing it from the outside, and some of us are
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Speaker 2: letting it happen. This is the way the process works.
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Speaker 2: They're convincing some of you that this is the way
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Speaker 2: it's supposed to be, and you take it in and
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Speaker 2: you tell your leadership, and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: you know you have this giant split in your denomination
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Speaker 2: and you go what happened? I don't understand. And people
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Speaker 2: are like, I can't go to that church anymore, or
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Speaker 2: I'm going to stay here because I like the new changes.
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Speaker 2: They make me feel good. Feeling good is the important thing.
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Speaker 2: We had to all feel good. So when someone tells
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Speaker 2: you that you should be out protesting ice and law
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Speaker 2: enforcement because that's what Jesus would have done. What, No,
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Speaker 2: that's not what Jesus would have done. You're complaining that
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Speaker 2: more Christians aren't supporting the idea of going into the
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Speaker 2: temple and throwing out the people who don't belong there.
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Speaker 2: They're going in and saying you're not supposed to be here,
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Speaker 2: you should leave. That's literally what law enforcement and ice
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Speaker 2: and most Americans want to see happen. See, instead of
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Speaker 2: the temple, it's the whole country. Like, if you're not
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Speaker 2: supposed to be here, go, let's flip the table. Let's
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Speaker 2: collectively all flip the table. But instead of us trying
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Speaker 2: to enforce that or you know, chasing people down the streets,
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Speaker 2: We're letting law enforcement do it, trained law enforcement, whose job,
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Speaker 2: whose career? In most cases, that's what they're there to do.
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Speaker 2: And people are getting in their way, and they're confused
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Speaker 2: about the fact that they think that they're the ones
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Speaker 2: who were surprised to be throwing out the law enforcement,
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Speaker 2: the people who are literally trying to do what you
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Speaker 2: say that you Christians should be doing this. This is
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Speaker 2: what you should be doing. You see why it's important
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Speaker 2: that we don't break that second commandment collectively as a group. Well,
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Speaker 2: we have to say we can't say, well, Jesus would
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Speaker 2: have done this, this is what he would have done
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Speaker 2: in context with something that had nothing to do with
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Speaker 2: anything that we can look at as a reference point.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if this is your reference point, he threw
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Speaker 2: people out of a temple and he flipped the table
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Speaker 2: and yeah, people that weren't supposed to be there. You're
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Speaker 2: just making stuff up. Now, you're making you're just making
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Speaker 2: stuff up. This is why it's important our politics can't
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Speaker 2: shape our religion or become our religion. That's the bigger problem,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. And we definitely can't listen to the people
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Speaker 2: on the outside trying to tell us I know your
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Speaker 2: God better than you do for the following reason dot
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Speaker 2: dot dot No, our faith has to dictator politics. And
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Speaker 2: if you're walking into church and you're thinking, look, I'm
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Speaker 2: a Christian, but even though I know the following things
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Speaker 2: probably wouldn't be okay, I would rather bring my view
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Speaker 2: on those things to church with me. I'd rather let
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Speaker 2: those change the way my church functions so that we
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Speaker 2: can all feel good about it and I can feel
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Speaker 2: good about how I vote every day. See, politics can't
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Speaker 2: refine your interests and learn what will work in your
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Speaker 2: real life. Now that you're armed with that information, she says,
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Speaker 2: you can recalibrate your goals and move forward with confidence
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Speaker 2: and realistic expectations. So start planning for your February. That's
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Speaker 2: what they say. I don't know, I don't know how
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Speaker 2: this works exactly, but that's what they say. There's a
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Speaker 2: man in Nevada celebrating a fiftieth birthday of an unlikely
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Speaker 2: family heirloom, a snowball. Jeff Seamus was fifteen years old
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Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy six living in San Jose, California, when
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Speaker 2: a snowfall dropped several inches on the ground. His family
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Speaker 2: excitedly ran outside to build a snowman and throw snowballs.
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Speaker 2: But as the snow started to melt, it occurred to
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Speaker 2: him he may never get to experience it again, so
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Speaker 2: they made a snowball put it inside an empty skippy jar.
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Speaker 2: Tossed it into the freezer. Fifty years later and a
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Speaker 2: move from California to Nevada, the snowball is still in
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Speaker 2: his freezer and has earned the title of world's oldest snowball,
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Speaker 2: even though Jeff admits it's now more of a snow blob.
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Speaker 2: What matters most, though, he says, is that it brings
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Speaker 2: him right back to that rare winter day in his
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Speaker 2: childhood and reminds his reminds him of his mom, who
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Speaker 2: passed away back in twenty seventeen. Jeff hopes the tradition
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Speaker 2: will continue in his adult children, who will inherit the snowball.
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Speaker 2: We'll keep it going. This is the kind of unplugging
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Speaker 2: hobbies I could get on board with. You know, you're
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Speaker 2: disconnecting from screens with your snow. We take our snowman.
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Speaker 2: When we do get the rare snow here, we take
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Speaker 2: a piece of the snowman and we make a little
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Speaker 2: snowball from him, and then we put that in the freezer.
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Speaker 2: And then the next time we get a snow you
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Speaker 2: put that snow into the next snowman. I mean, we
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Speaker 2: haven't been doing it for fifty years or anything, but
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Speaker 2: that's our newer tradition than fifty We don't do it
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Speaker 2: for fifty years, right, that's not what we've been doing.
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Speaker 2: But I think it's a great I think I like
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Speaker 2: the idea. It's a nice thought to me of doing this.
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Speaker 2: I think that's that's pretty good. Hey, if you've been
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Speaker 2: planning to pick up a Nintendo switch too, you might
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Speaker 2: want to act fast. Industry insiders or noticing the cost
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Speaker 2: of the high priced tech parts inside the console like
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Speaker 2: memory and storage, has been quietly climbing, which means Nintendo
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Speaker 2: might have to raise the price of the switch to
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Speaker 2: would be such a radical move, as the PlayStation and
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Speaker 2: Xbox have already increased the prices of their consoles after
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Speaker 2: releasing them to the public. But they're up for a
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Speaker 2: little while and they start to go down, all right,
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Speaker 2: isn't that how it's supposed to work? They go down
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Speaker 2: a little bit at a staggering seventy five percent alcohol
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Speaker 2: by volume. There's a Scottish beer. It's the bit theier fire.
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Speaker 2: I guess that's how you say it, the Scottish bit
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Speaker 2: thier fire. I don't know. I'm not. Probably a lot
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Speaker 2: more hacking and hocken and all that. I got a
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Speaker 2: lot of Scottish heritage. That's not something that rolled down
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Speaker 2: with us. It's now officially claimed the title of the
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Speaker 2: world's strongest beer, packing more of a punch than most
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Speaker 2: bottles of vodka. Drinkers brave enough to try the sixty
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Speaker 2: two dollars brew report that the experience is less about
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Speaker 2: flavor and more about endurance, with many noting that it
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Speaker 2: literally tastes like burning and it can leave your tongue
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Speaker 2: feeling completely numb. Yeah, sounds delicious. And finally, if you're
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Speaker 2: totally comfortable with hopping into a driverless robotat there's a
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Speaker 2: startup called They offering some middle ground. The rental car
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Speaker 2: shows up at your door. It's being driven by a
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Speaker 2: real human sitting miles away at a remote console. Tele
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Speaker 2: Drivers they call them, navigate your empty car to your
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Speaker 2: location using cameras and racing style simulators, and they give
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Speaker 2: you the peace of mind that there's human judgment involved,
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Speaker 2: without the awkwardness of a stranger in the front seat.
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Speaker 2: Once the car arrives, you take the wheel for a
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Speaker 2: fraction of the cost of an uber and then when
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Speaker 2: you're done, you just walk away in the remote valet
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Speaker 2: then takes the car from there, so they're not driving
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Speaker 2: it while you're in it, but they get it to
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Speaker 2: you without you having to deal with you know, the handoff.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know, that's all right. I don't mind
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Speaker 2: the thought of the car just driving me there by
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Speaker 2: itself either, But that'll do it for this Monday edition
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