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Are We In Big Trouble? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, eleventh day of December. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. I'd like to tell you that, you know,
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Speaker 2: now with like two weeks to Christmas, we're full of
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Speaker 2: cheer and joy and hopefulness and all that good stuff.
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Speaker 2: And I'll be honest with you, I've had a little
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Speaker 2: discouragement over the last couple of days and I'm going
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Speaker 2: to pass it on just because I think it's food
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Speaker 2: for thought and things when you think about I don't
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Speaker 2: want to focus on it too much as we get
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Speaker 2: into the deeper into the holiday season with Honukkah upon us,
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Speaker 2: Christmas coming up, we're in the season. We are in
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Speaker 2: the season, and we want to continue to be in
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Speaker 2: the season. But we need a few minutes, I think,
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Speaker 2: just who reflect on some of the news of the day,
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Speaker 2: and I know I talked a little bit about some
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Speaker 2: of this stuff, talked about the arrest of the now
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Speaker 2: what's considered the suspect, the person charged with the killing
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Speaker 2: of the United Healthcare I'm sorry, assassination of the United
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Speaker 2: Healthcare CEO who was gunned down right there in the
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Speaker 2: streets in New York by someone who and here's where
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Speaker 2: it gets tough. Some are calling a hero. And this
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Speaker 2: has become, I think, reflective of the path that we
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Speaker 2: are headed down entropy, if you want to call it,
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Speaker 2: things starting to go from order to disorder, if you
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Speaker 2: want to think of it as the old snowball analogy,
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Speaker 2: that's you know, turning into an avalanche. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what this says. There's a part of me that wants
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Speaker 2: to think this is a very small amount of people
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Speaker 2: in our society, and I do believe that it is. However,
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Speaker 2: the fact that there's any number of people who are
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Speaker 2: finding joy in knowing that this man, this human being,
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Speaker 2: this man, this father, this husband was just assassinated on
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Speaker 2: the street in New York for being the guy in
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Speaker 2: charge of United Healthcare. So this is, of course one
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Speaker 2: of those developing stories. It's one of those stories that's
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Speaker 2: going to change on the morning of the eleventh of December.
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Speaker 2: I'm basing it on what we know now, and we
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Speaker 2: know that this person has been taken into custody. I
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Speaker 2: told you his name yesterday. I don't need to repeatedly
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Speaker 2: say the name of someone who does something like this,
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Speaker 2: because in some cases you think maybe they're doing it
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Speaker 2: for the attention. I don't know if that's the case
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Speaker 2: for this person, but the fact that there's anyone calling
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Speaker 2: him a hero, the fact that there's anyone who is
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Speaker 2: saying good for him or good for us, makes me
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Speaker 2: want to say his name even less. So let's kind
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Speaker 2: of run through what we know, and they've expanded some
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Speaker 2: of the charges. He apparently had a note on him
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Speaker 2: explaining why he did it. He had what they call
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Speaker 2: a ghost gun, one that was apparently made at least
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Speaker 2: in part out of three D printing. I told you
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Speaker 2: yesterday that we have TV shows and things. I didn't
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Speaker 2: want to get into the ghost gun thing too much yesterday,
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Speaker 2: but at this point now, when I was talking about
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Speaker 2: we have descriptions on how to make things guns, bombs,
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Speaker 2: things easily accessible online, and we have all these shows
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Speaker 2: that kind of, you know, lay out here's what you
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Speaker 2: should do, here's how you could get away with this.
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Speaker 2: I know that typically people don't get away with it.
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Speaker 2: They don't get away with it for long, especially not
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Speaker 2: in the world we live in that has digital media everywhere.
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Speaker 2: His capture is another real when I guess for digital
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Speaker 2: media outlets because Apparently it was a combination of you know,
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Speaker 2: mass media, digital media saying here's who we're looking for,
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Speaker 2: and people were able to identify him based on photos images,
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Speaker 2: just those pictures of his eyes and his eyebrows, I
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Speaker 2: guess is what led to his capture captured in a McDonald's.
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Speaker 2: One of the employees at McDonald's, I guess, said that
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Speaker 2: she was his cashier, served him there, thought that the
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Speaker 2: eyes and the eyebrows looked like like that of the
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Speaker 2: killer that was being sought. There were some patrons in
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Speaker 2: the restaurant that were also thought that he looked like
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Speaker 2: it could be the guy, and police were notified. It
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Speaker 2: was an officer who I guess is a first year
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Speaker 2: on the job, six months or so on the job,
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Speaker 2: is ultimately the one who confronted him, and I guess
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Speaker 2: ultimately was part of the team it took him into
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Speaker 2: custody and all those things. All right, So here's where
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Speaker 2: things start to get complicated. There are people that are
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Speaker 2: currently and again I want to believe this is a
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Speaker 2: small group of people. I'd certainly like to believe that,
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Speaker 2: but there are people that are review bombing the McDonald's
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Speaker 2: where he was taken into custody attacking them online and
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Speaker 2: saying that restaurants garbage, the food's bad, whatever, okay, trying
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Speaker 2: to push down their reviews. I've seen a few jokes
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Speaker 2: or someone I guess pretending I hope it was pretending
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Speaker 2: to be the Burger King account. I assume it was
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Speaker 2: pretending saying we're not snitches at Burger King. Seen that
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Speaker 2: online a few places. The fact that people, you know,
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Speaker 2: there's a part of me that can try to find
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Speaker 2: some humor or levity in things. I don't know that
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Speaker 2: I see this it's funny at all. I mean, don't
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Speaker 2: get me wrong. There are some things that happen that
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Speaker 2: are so tragic and so bad that when I see
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Speaker 2: a comedian or someone that tries to find some way
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Speaker 2: to break up that bit of seriousness of it. I
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Speaker 2: don't think we're there yet, And I don't think that
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Speaker 2: that's really funny, because I think there's probably those elements
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Speaker 2: of truth that some people feel like that McDonald shouldn't
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Speaker 2: have snitched. Thus the review bombs, not the nice job
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Speaker 2: helping to get this, you know, homicide suspect, this assassin.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, well we'll get more into the So
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Speaker 2: people went after McDonald's, this particular McDonald's location. If people
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Speaker 2: have been making jokes, and there's other jokes. I saw
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Speaker 2: one that said, if they can convince Joe Biden that
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Speaker 2: this killer is his son, he'll get pardoned. I get
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Speaker 2: there's a joke there to be made, and that Biden
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Speaker 2: is you know, doesn't have his wits about him, doesn't
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Speaker 2: have his cognition. Hahaha. Boy, it's funny that this person
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Speaker 2: has been allowed to be president for four years and
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Speaker 2: doesn't really know what's going on. And most of the
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Speaker 2: people making these kind of jokes are the ones that
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Speaker 2: wish that he was going to be president again on
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Speaker 2: or continue to be president in January twenty first. So
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Speaker 2: let's talk about the slide of our society. Let's talk
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Speaker 2: about this sliding off the hill, this giant glacier that
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Speaker 2: is just sliding on down. We've heard over the years
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Speaker 2: that there's no danger in dropping our guard on certain
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Speaker 2: things because things aren't going to get that bad, right,
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Speaker 2: They're not going to get that bad. When people said,
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Speaker 2: you know, don't worry so much about gay marriage, it's
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Speaker 2: not a big deal. And then people said, well, eventually
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Speaker 2: there'll be people that you know are going to think
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Speaker 2: they're cats and want to marry cats, and people said
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Speaker 2: that'll never happen. That's that's a that's a very extreme
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Speaker 2: situation to get to. I don't know how many people
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Speaker 2: have actually tried to marry I know there was a
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Speaker 2: woman who married herself or tried to marry herself or whatever.
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Speaker 2: And there's been a few people who wanted to marry pets.
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Speaker 2: I think some of those, ironically, but the fact that
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Speaker 2: it's even been a thing is concerning people never think
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Speaker 2: they're cats, and there's people that think they're cats or
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Speaker 2: they want to be cats, and I realize it's a
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Speaker 2: very different thing than Ultimately, where we're going with this
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Speaker 2: is that we have a society now that says I
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Speaker 2: feel wronged and anyone who may have been involved in
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Speaker 2: wronging me deserves to die. That's what we've gotten to.
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Speaker 2: That is where we have gotten as a society, and
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Speaker 2: it is very troubling. On Piers Morgan Show, the former
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Speaker 2: Washington Post columnist Taylor, I don't know if it's Lawns
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Speaker 2: or Lorenz. I think it's Lawrence el orion Z as
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at it and I'm thinking, is it Lorenz?
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Speaker 2: But I think It's Laurens use the word joy to
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Speaker 2: describe how she felt when Brian Thompson was killed. I
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Speaker 2: guess I should be saying his name more because he's
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Speaker 2: the actual victim in all of this, and his family
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Speaker 2: are the ones that have to deal with this. So
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Speaker 2: while on he Here's Morgan's show, she said, I do
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Speaker 2: believe in the sanctity of life, and that's why I felt,
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Speaker 2: along with so many other Americans joy, unfortunately, and then
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Speaker 2: she said, maybe not joy, but certainly not empathy. So
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Speaker 2: Here's Morgan asked her about that and why she was
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Speaker 2: giggling and laughing through all of this interview. He basically
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Speaker 2: asked her, you know, he says, how can this make
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Speaker 2: you joyful? This guy's a husband, he's a father, he's
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Speaker 2: been gunned down in the middle of Manhattan. Why does
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Speaker 2: this make you joyful? And ultimately she said, so were
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Speaker 2: tens of thousands of Americans that he murdered. So were
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Speaker 2: the tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans who died
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Speaker 2: because greedy health insurance executives like this one push a
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Speaker 2: policy of denying care to the most vulnerable people. And
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Speaker 2: I am part of the many millions of Americans that
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Speaker 2: have watched people that I care about suffer and in
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Speaker 2: some cases die because of lack of health care. H
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Speaker 2: Morgan did ask do all executives at healthcare companies deserve
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Speaker 2: to die? And she said no, and people, I guess
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Speaker 2: she had said on social media, Oh oh no. The
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Speaker 2: initial post on social media she made was and people
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Speaker 2: wonder why we want these executives dead? And then he
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Speaker 2: kept challenging on why she was laughing about the whole
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Speaker 2: situation and how she thought it was so funny, and
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Speaker 2: he says, I don't mean to be rude, but why
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Speaker 2: the f are you laughing all the time. I don't
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Speaker 2: get it. Sorry, apologies for my languge, but honestly, I
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Speaker 2: find it unbelievable. What are you laughing at? She said,
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Speaker 2: I'm laughing at One of the other panelists, Tommy larn
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Speaker 2: was on the show. Tommy's insane mischaracterization of why people
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Speaker 2: are angry. The majority of American America is united on this.
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Speaker 2: We do not think that this healthcare system that is
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Speaker 2: murdering again thousands of innocent Americans who, by the way, Tommy,
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Speaker 2: also have families, also have children. These people are being
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Speaker 2: killed by our barbaric and evil for profit healthcare system,
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Speaker 2: and I agree we should not necessarily go around shooting
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Speaker 2: people in the street. All right, So a lot to
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Speaker 2: digest there. While I can tell you I understand that
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Speaker 2: our healthcare system is not perfect and it needs work,
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Speaker 2: I can't comprehend this idea that just because people die,
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Speaker 2: then you should be murdering people who run the companies
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Speaker 2: anymore than I think that you know, if a plane
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Speaker 2: crashes and kills people and loved ones, that that head
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Speaker 2: of that airline should be executed, or even the person
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Speaker 2: responsible for maintaining and repairing the plane should be killed.
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Speaker 2: I think of it in terms of in that regard,
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Speaker 2: how far do you want to take your line of
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Speaker 2: thinking and your justification of what's okay. Keep in mind,
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Speaker 2: we are a society of people who encouraged, at first,
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Speaker 2: not necessarily directly, although some did directly attempts on the
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Speaker 2: life of the person who will be our next president
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Speaker 2: of the United States, our former and future president. When
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Speaker 2: an assassin was a quarter of an inch away from
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Speaker 2: taking Trump's life during a rally, people challenged it and said, ah,
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Speaker 2: the Trump. They set that up. He set that up,
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Speaker 2: and I thought that was awful. He set it up
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Speaker 2: just to get sympathy. I know people that are Trump
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Speaker 2: supporters that think that that's also the case. It's a
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Speaker 2: very very small mis margin there, Okay, it's quarter of
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Speaker 2: an inch at most, and he's gone like he's not
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Speaker 2: the candidate, he's not the future president. He's dead right
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Speaker 2: there on that stage. But I thought that was bad.
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Speaker 2: What transpired after that was the people saying, well, we'll
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Speaker 2: get another chance, or that's why you're supposed to. You
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Speaker 2: set your site, practice your sites better, or re retest
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Speaker 2: your sites before you get out there. People encouraging another chance.
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Speaker 2: Someone did try to get him at least one more time.
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Speaker 2: And this comes on the heels of people like Kathy
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Speaker 2: Griffin holding up the mask that was supposedly Trump's severed head.
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Speaker 2: People making jokes about John Wilkes Booth. I think it
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Speaker 2: was Johnny Depp made a joke about John Wilkes Booth
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Speaker 2: killing Lincoln and an actor killing a president, ha ha.
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Speaker 2: So as we make statements like these comments about CEO
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Speaker 2: should be held accountable, what does that say to other people?
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Speaker 2: I don't know the mental status of this particular person
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Speaker 2: who is now in custody for the killing of Brian Thompson.
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Speaker 2: But I think most of the time we see people
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Speaker 2: and we say they must be mentally unbalanced to do
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Speaker 2: something like this. There's something that makes you capable of
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Speaker 2: crossing this line. But I think there's something that's in
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Speaker 2: some people that make them capable of being willing to
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Speaker 2: encourage others to cross the line. I saw someone recently
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Speaker 2: post on social media, why haven't hackers wiped out all
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Speaker 2: the student debt? Yet? I realized that's not encouraging someone
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Speaker 2: to be killed. And I realize they were probably at
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Speaker 2: least partially making a joke about it, But that mindset
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Speaker 2: of secretly I think wishing it would happen right secretly,
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Speaker 2: And I understand it's different. Sure, wiping out student loans.
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Speaker 2: Just discuss this on the show. It's a burden on
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Speaker 2: all of the people who paid their student loans or
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Speaker 2: all the people who you know, maybe didn't even go
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Speaker 2: to college, didn't have a student loan, But ultimately that
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Speaker 2: just gets divided up among the other people that have
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Speaker 2: to pay for it. But that's still different than encouraging
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Speaker 2: someone to take a shot at a presidential candidate, or
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Speaker 2: encouraging someone to eventually take out someone who will be
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Speaker 2: the president soon and encouraging people to go after CEOs
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Speaker 2: of companies that you feel like have wronged you. So
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Speaker 2: how far does this go? Should the parents of a child,
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Speaker 2: or all of the children who maybe took their own
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Speaker 2: lives because they were bullied on social media, should they
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Speaker 2: be looking at Mark Zuckerberg? I'm certainly not encouraging that.
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Speaker 2: How far does it go? The CEOs of fast food
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Speaker 2: companies that, you know, people that eat the food sometimes
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Speaker 2: have health problems, and should they you know, people that
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Speaker 2: don't do it in moderation, should they be looking at
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Speaker 2: taking out CEOs of those companies? Well, of course not.
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Speaker 2: That's not the way we're supposed to function. But how
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Speaker 2: far can we take this justification? How far can we
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Speaker 2: just grab it and run with it? If you've got
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Speaker 2: a loved one that played in professional sports that ended
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Speaker 2: up with brain injuries, should the heads of those sports
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Speaker 2: leagues be in trouble? No, that's not how we do things,
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Speaker 2: and as a decent and civil society, we certainly don't
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Speaker 2: laugh about it. You can't push your empathy aside and
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Speaker 2: claim to be a bleeding heart liberal. What do you do?
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Speaker 2: How can you be a bleeding art liberal and have
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Speaker 2: no empathy. We need more empathy, we don't need less
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Speaker 2: of it. You can't squash your empathy and think I'm
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Speaker 2: going to be a better person because I'm right. That's
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Speaker 2: where we are. There's this self righteous justification of I'm right,
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Speaker 2: you're wrong, and anyone who's wrong doesn't deserve to breathe
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Speaker 2: the same air as me. No, that's not how it works.
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Speaker 2: That's not how it works at all. People are certainly
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Speaker 2: allowed to have their opinions in this country. They're allowed
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Speaker 2: to express their opinions. And now just one of the
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Speaker 2: side effects of all of this is Lawrence has lost
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Speaker 2: her gig I guess with Vox. She had a partnership
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Speaker 2: with Vox and they have ended that based on some
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Speaker 2: of this. That's how things should get taken care of.
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Speaker 2: She loses a bit of her voice, she loses a
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Speaker 2: bit of her means of distributing her hate, because that's
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Speaker 2: what it is. We're also in a society, by the way,
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Speaker 2: that just said, yeah, the Jews are bad, We just
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Speaker 2: went through that. We went through that this year in
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Speaker 2: America and we had LGBTQ plus people marching in the
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Speaker 2: street for Palestine who would not welcome them in any
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Speaker 2: way with open arms. But that's a discussion for another time.
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Speaker 2: We've had that discussion. We've had that discussion, and sadly,
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Speaker 2: we continue to have these discussions about what we're just
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Speaker 2: watching things just crumble right before our eyes. It's a
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Speaker 2: sad path that we're headed down. It's a sad place.
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Speaker 2: And the only assurance that we can have is it's
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Speaker 2: got to be a small number of people. It has
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Speaker 2: right after the break. Okay, when there are studies that
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Speaker 2: come out that say things that are positive about maybe
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Speaker 2: some of our potential vices, we say, ah, I like
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Speaker 2: this study. And then when they come out and then
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Speaker 2: they're against some of our vices, we say, ah, boo,
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Speaker 2: I don't like this study. And we've jokingly over the
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Speaker 2: years the radio show or here you say, well, we
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Speaker 2: have a file of the ones that we like, and
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Speaker 2: then a file for the ones that we don't like.
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Speaker 2: That's the trash. Here's one that we like. According to
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Speaker 2: a new study, drinking two to three cups of coffee
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Speaker 2: a day could add nearly two years to your life
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Speaker 2: Researchers from Portugal found that coffee may help reduce the
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Speaker 2: risk of heart disease, cancer, respiratory illnesses, and cognitive decline.
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Speaker 2: So how about that. That's a good one. I'm looking
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Speaker 2: for one that says the same thing about bacon. Well,
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Speaker 2: this is the season for people getting together. But when
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Speaker 2: you do, what do you do when the guests stay
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Speaker 2: a little bit too long? Well, here's a tip from
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Speaker 2: Martha Stewart. On a recent appearance on a talk show,
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Speaker 2: Stuart explained that the way she gets rid of guests
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Speaker 2: and gets him to leave is she just goes to bed. Frankly,
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Speaker 2: I just say I'm going to bed, I'll see you,
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Speaker 2: and I do. Just I say that. And if that
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Speaker 2: doesn't work, she suggests turning off the lights and then
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Speaker 2: possibly even turning on the fire alarm. He says, one
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Speaker 2: night I had the fire department show up, nobody would leave.
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Speaker 2: We just put the fire alarm on. That seems a
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Speaker 2: bit drastic. I don't necessarily think you should get to
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Speaker 2: that point, but it can be tough. And I've got
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Speaker 2: friends who say that they've you know, start putting on
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Speaker 2: their pajamas and just I don't want to say his name,
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Speaker 2: but I know he listens, and you know he's told
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Speaker 2: me before that. So here's a suggestion, the old fire alarm.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know that you want to go there.
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Speaker 2: I know that you don't want to, but it's an
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Speaker 2: option just in case. Hey, a Florida man getting a
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Speaker 2: lot of attention for his holiday display at his house.
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Speaker 2: And it's not for thousands of lights or animatronic elves reindeer.
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Speaker 2: JP Mitchellick of Jacksonville has a giant replica of the
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Speaker 2: leg lamp from a Christmas story. It's a twenty fi
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Speaker 2: tall leg lamp on the front lawn. Neighbors say it's
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Speaker 2: hard to miss, gets lots of laughs from passers by,
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Speaker 2: and to play up the classic holiday favorite even more,
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Speaker 2: he also has a giant replica Ralfie wearing the pink
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Speaker 2: bunny pajamas hugging the lamp. He says, everyone's decorating their houses,
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Speaker 2: and I thought it would be fun to have a
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Speaker 2: neighborhood competition who could have like the best Christmas decorations?
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Speaker 2: That would be that's pretty good. I mean it's not,
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Speaker 2: you know, crazy as far as the number of lights,
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Speaker 2: but at this simplicity of it, I think makes it good.
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Speaker 2: And you know, it's also a major award, and I
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Speaker 2: guess that's what he's trying for. He's trying for a
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Speaker 2: major award. Miriam Webster is the latest dictionary to announced
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Speaker 2: it's word of the Year for twenty twenty four, and
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Speaker 2: their winner is polarization, a word that it says was
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Speaker 2: used prominently during the presidential election. Miriam Webster on its
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Speaker 2: polarization as a division into two sharply distinct opposites, especially
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Speaker 2: a state in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of
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Speaker 2: a group or society no longer range along a continuum,
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Speaker 2: but become concentrated at opposite extremes. Other words seeing a
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Speaker 2: surge and interest this year included demure, of course, totality, fortnite, pander,
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Speaker 2: and democracy. You know, I think some people don't know
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Speaker 2: the definition of many of those words, and they use
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Speaker 2: them a lot this year. It happens. Holiday music's everywhere
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Speaker 2: this time of year, but not all of us makes
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Speaker 2: us holly jolly. According to a new survey, the most
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Speaker 2: overplayed songs of the season, I believe it or not,
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Speaker 2: Mariah Carey is not at the top of the list,
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Speaker 2: and I guess you know, there's a couple of different
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Speaker 2: versions of her song, but there's other songs that get
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Speaker 2: played a lot more. Number one on the list is
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Speaker 2: jingle Bells, a lot of different versions of it, whether
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Speaker 2: it's the Bargain Dogs or the Cats or whatever. We
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Speaker 2: wish you Merry Christmas. It's beginning to look a lot
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Speaker 2: like Christmas. Jingle Bell Rock and All I Want for
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Speaker 2: Christmas is You is the top five. It makes sense.
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Speaker 2: Last Christmas Santa Baby, You're a mean one, mister Grinch,
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Speaker 2: the Honka Song of the Honkah Song overplayed. Really, those
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Speaker 2: are all on the list in no particular order. That'll
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Speaker 2: do it for this Wednesday edition of the show. Thanks
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