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Gas Price Outrage · 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: Thursday morning, thirtieth and final day of April. I'm West
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  Speaker 2: thanks for joining me. We got a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: that warmer weather bounce back. We had our nice little break.
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  Speaker 2: We knew it was coming, but we got our little
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  Speaker 2: bounce back. Thankfully. Parts of the state desperately needed that
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  Speaker 2: rain that we got. Needed more than what we got,
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  Speaker 2: but we got some rain and that helped a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But here we are knocking on the door of May,
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  Speaker 2: and that means a number of things. If your school
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  Speaker 2: hasn't already done a prom that's coming up, schools will
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  Speaker 2: be winding things down over the next month. Some our
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  Speaker 2: area will definitely be done by June, but some schools
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  Speaker 2: that now go into June and at least get to
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  Speaker 2: Memorial Day weekend, but some get into June. I've got
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  Speaker 2: friends in Charlotte have a kid going to school until.
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  Speaker 3: Beginning of June.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, if you got later in the year,
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  Speaker 2: schools like up in the Northeast or different parts of
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  Speaker 2: the North, I guess you may be dealing with some
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  Speaker 2: makeup days with some.
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  Speaker 3: Severe weather this year.
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  Speaker 2: But we are quickly approaching those summer months, working our
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  Speaker 2: way through spring. It was nice to get that little
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  Speaker 2: break though. So a couple of things that are going
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  Speaker 2: on here for us locally. We've got early voting has
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  Speaker 2: started for some of our local races. We got our
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  Speaker 2: mayor's race going on, a lot of folks in the hunt.
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  Speaker 2: I've done a couple of shows talking about that. It
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  Speaker 2: feels like we kind of have a general idea of
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  Speaker 2: where things are going that a runoff is certainly very likely,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll be covering that as we go. We're into
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  Speaker 2: the early voting and it's we've got primary season going on.
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  Speaker 2: Had my interview with Rick Jackson or a clip of
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  Speaker 2: my interview with Rick Jackson yesterday on the show, my
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  Speaker 2: question from him to him and his answer on that question.
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  Speaker 2: And he's running for the Republican nomination for governor, and
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  Speaker 2: we certainly welcome anybody else on the show. I think
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  Speaker 2: we got a couple that will be coming on. I
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  Speaker 2: think we'll see how that all plays out. And I'd
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  Speaker 2: love to get Governor Kemp back on again before he's done.
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  Speaker 2: I think we'll work on that as well. So few
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  Speaker 2: things to address, and the first and foremost with this
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  Speaker 2: election coming up for the primaries and for local elections
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  Speaker 2: and things, and I've voiced a few concerns that I have.
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  Speaker 2: One of my big concerns about this place where I live.
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  Speaker 2: It's my hometown, this area, the whole Chatthoochee Valley. There
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  Speaker 2: are so many things about it.
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  Speaker 1: I like.
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  Speaker 3: There are things about Columbus that.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely love where I was born, But there are
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  Speaker 2: things about it that I just roll my eyes. An
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  Speaker 2: election time a lot of times reflects a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the worst of it. For me, I've been a long standing,
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  Speaker 2: very vocal anti splost person. I know that sometimes those
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  Speaker 2: special purpose local option sales taxes can be very beneficial.
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  Speaker 2: I get that I have utilized some of the things
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  Speaker 2: that have been improved or brought in because of it.
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  Speaker 2: I understand that I get that my issues with them
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  Speaker 2: are that we don't ever let them expire. Now, well,
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  Speaker 2: there's not one on the ballot now. Sorry, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want it to seem like I'm suggesting that. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: pointing out the fact that we just don't let them expire.
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  Speaker 2: We have this tendency to you know, it gets to
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  Speaker 2: the end of one and then we say, well, let's
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  Speaker 2: just renew it. We're already used to that it's just
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  Speaker 2: a penny on the sales tax, and we should, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just renew it. We got more things that we could
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  Speaker 2: we could do with it, and right now we're you know,
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  Speaker 2: I guess tied for the highest sales tax in the
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  Speaker 2: state of Georgia. There's conversation about some of the things
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  Speaker 2: that could come with the benefits of.
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  Speaker 1: It.
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  Speaker 2: Was brought up at the event press event with Rick
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  Speaker 2: Jackson the other day as the conversation came up about
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  Speaker 2: things like the data center. I'll be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: I can see pros and cons on both sides of
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  Speaker 2: the data center.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not adamant one way or the other about this.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people are very opinionated on it could
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  Speaker 2: end up turning the mayor's race in Columbus just solely
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  Speaker 2: on that one single issue. Which is astounding for me
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  Speaker 2: because you know, this is there's so much more to
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  Speaker 2: running the city than just did you want the data
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  Speaker 2: center or not. But one of those things that I
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  Speaker 2: have issue with with my hometown is it often does
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  Speaker 2: feel like decisions get made behind closed doors. We have
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  Speaker 2: these community meetings where people can come in and voice
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  Speaker 2: their opinions and their concerns, but it always feels like
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  Speaker 2: the decisions are already made. It's interesting that this is
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  Speaker 2: the one time, finally where people are starting to say
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  Speaker 2: that I feel like with the SPLOT and I know
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  Speaker 2: that the splos thing we get to vote on, but
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  Speaker 2: where the money goes for the SPLOT, It always feels
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  Speaker 2: like these things are already laid out for us, and
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  Speaker 2: these opportunities to come in and speak, it just doesn't
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  Speaker 2: feel like really much gets said. We went through it
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  Speaker 2: with COVID, We're going to have we're going to try
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  Speaker 2: to make a decision about what we're going to do
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  Speaker 2: as far as closing schools. We want to get a
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  Speaker 2: public forum going, and then you knew the answer. You
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  Speaker 2: could tell from the tone of the meetings that the
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  Speaker 2: decisions were already made. It feels that way. It certainly
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  Speaker 2: felt that way with the Data Center. It felt that
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  Speaker 2: way with the Klingstones. Again all pros and cons with
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  Speaker 2: the Klingstones, it just felt like the community wasn't really
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  Speaker 2: consulted with that. It was a decision that got made,
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  Speaker 2: then we were consulted, and then we moved forward with it.
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  Speaker 2: I think that there's been a number of those kinds
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  Speaker 2: of things. I think the whole rafting was another situation
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  Speaker 2: where things just happened. They just sort of happened, and
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  Speaker 2: then we got asked, Hey, what do you guys think
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  Speaker 2: about this? Isn't this great? And I think that's the
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  Speaker 2: other side of it. But it's interesting though that people
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  Speaker 2: are finally get on board with the idea that they've
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  Speaker 2: already made up their mind and they're just asking you
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  Speaker 2: for permission to do it. They want to hear you
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  Speaker 2: say yes, and then you know, you move forward with it.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they want to hear. So that's just kind
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  Speaker 2: of one of those things that we see reflected over
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  Speaker 2: and over again. And I have a lot of concerns
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  Speaker 2: about most of the people running for mayor for Columbus.
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  Speaker 2: There is one to me that stands out as the
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  Speaker 2: best candidate, and I know where my vote is gonna
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  Speaker 2: going to go. I have some candidates that I think
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  Speaker 2: there's there's no way we would benefit from having these
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  Speaker 2: candidates in there. There's a couple that I think could
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  Speaker 2: do the job. Uh, there's one that I think could
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  Speaker 2: probably do the job very badly, and I have no
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  Speaker 2: interest in that happening. But well, we're getting a little
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  Speaker 2: bit closer to all of that as we've gotten into
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  Speaker 2: the early voting stage of things. One thing that's interesting
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  Speaker 2: to me too, and we're in that, you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: in a midterm year where we have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people that are very worked up about the midterm issues
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  Speaker 2: that they've been told to be worked up about. And
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  Speaker 2: I just it's interesting to me the closer we get
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  Speaker 2: to an actual it's time.
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  Speaker 3: It's time to vote.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you get to the actual day and it's
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  Speaker 2: time to go in and vote, whether it's voting early
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  Speaker 2: or whether it's voting on the actual election day. There's
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  Speaker 2: it's been a longstanding history by the way of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of folks on the right that feel like you're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to go on election day and then that just
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  Speaker 2: feels right. I've got friends that have told me like,
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  Speaker 2: this just feels like an election when you go on
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  Speaker 2: election day and you don't go early because you know
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  Speaker 2: you're supposed to go on election day, and that just
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  Speaker 2: has a good field and you do what you want
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  Speaker 2: to do, You do it however it's it's best for
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  Speaker 2: you to do it. We have definitely seen an increase
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  Speaker 2: a spike in the number of folks on the left
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  Speaker 2: that are early voting, and I always stress about the
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  Speaker 2: last minute voters because I think, what if something comes up,
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  Speaker 2: What if there's an emergency, what if there's a hospital visit,
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  Speaker 2: what if there's a family member. There's all these things
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  Speaker 2: that could come up that give me anxiety about voting
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  Speaker 2: on election day. So more often than not, I go early.
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  Speaker 2: I encourage people to at least consider it. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to I never on this show try to tell
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  Speaker 2: you what to do. I've told you, please, dear Lord,
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  Speaker 2: don't vote for another splost ever again.
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  Speaker 3: Please.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, I don't really tell you tell
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  Speaker 2: you what to do, or who to vote for, or
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  Speaker 2: how to vote.
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  Speaker 3: Not usually.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's pretty clear I think most of the time.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I don't always necessarily actually have an
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  Speaker 2: endorsement here because I do like to hear from everybody
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  Speaker 2: involved that I give them the opportunity. Most people don't
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  Speaker 2: take me up, at least at the local level. I
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  Speaker 2: rarely get taken up on the offer at the local level.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why, you know, And there was a
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  Speaker 2: time when I had, you know, the sitting senators in
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  Speaker 2: Georgia anxious to be on, and for some reason, the
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  Speaker 2: two that now have the job don't have any interest
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  Speaker 2: in coming on.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what Jack ass All for a Reverend
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  Speaker 2: Arkele could have against me. But you know that's their choice.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have to do it. But it is interesting
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  Speaker 2: to me we get closer, we get to an actual
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  Speaker 2: placing a vote, that people suddenly who don't pay attention
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  Speaker 2: to politics at all become experts on everything politics. And
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  Speaker 2: it's true of everything any issue that comes up on
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  Speaker 2: social media. People think they understand Iran. My neighbor was
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  Speaker 2: telling me the other day, you know, this is about oil,
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  Speaker 2: that's all it is. Look, oil is part of it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't say that it's not part of it. But
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  Speaker 2: that's not the reason.
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  Speaker 3: That's not.
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  Speaker 2: The reason for what we're doing in Iran. I know
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of people that may think that that's
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  Speaker 2: he's heard that somewhere for him to say that and
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  Speaker 2: him to believe that, but he's not really somebody who's
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  Speaker 2: doing deep dives into politics. I know he's got his
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  Speaker 2: opinion and he's certainly entitled to it, and I'm not
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  Speaker 2: putting him in the group of people that just suddenly
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  Speaker 2: around election day is, you know, very vocal about everything.
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  Speaker 2: I just he just said something to me the other
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  Speaker 2: day about gas prices. And look, I'll say this, and
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  Speaker 2: I think I've already said this once before, but I
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  Speaker 2: feel it's important to stress it. The price, the national
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  Speaker 2: price of gas right now is not as high as
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  Speaker 2: it was four years ago when Biden was president.
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  Speaker 3: It's close, it's very close.
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  Speaker 2: When you hear the news say that it's the highest
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  Speaker 2: it's been in four years, that's what they're talking about,
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  Speaker 2: because it was higher four years ago, and you can
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  Speaker 2: believe that was a record high, and if it was
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  Speaker 2: higher than that, they would be telling you that now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's happened since I recorded the show
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  Speaker 2: and you're listening to it. I don't know if it's changed,
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  Speaker 2: but it's important to note that four years ago, in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, we had a new record for the
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  Speaker 2: highest it had ever been, and there were a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people on the right that were very upset, and
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  Speaker 2: there were just a lot of angry people at how
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  Speaker 2: on the right and how expensive gas had gotten. On
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  Speaker 2: the left didn't care, they did not care. They just
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  Speaker 2: were rolling with it like, you know what, this is
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  Speaker 2: just the cost of freedom or whatever it was. Now conversely,
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  Speaker 2: now with Trump as the president and we're in this conflict,
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  Speaker 2: war whatever you want to call it, Folks on the
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  Speaker 2: left are absolutely losing their minds about the price of gas.
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  Speaker 2: Folks on the right seem to just be rolling with it.
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  Speaker 2: I know there's some that are complaining, but a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people seem to be rolling with it. And I
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  Speaker 2: just want to point out the fact that if you
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  Speaker 2: were upset about it four years ago, you should be
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  Speaker 2: upset about it now. Okay, that's just the first thing.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're upset about it now, you should have
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  Speaker 2: been upset about.
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  Speaker 3: It four years ago.
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  Speaker 2: That there are some differences, though, and I want to
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  Speaker 2: point out those differences because there's a lot more at stake,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm only going to scratch the surface right now.
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  Speaker 2: The reasons that we've been told that this is happening,
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  Speaker 2: the reasons that we've been told are this is about
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  Speaker 2: making sure Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Does not have nuclear capabilities.
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  Speaker 2: This is making sure that World War III doesn't begin
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  Speaker 2: or the beginning of the end of times. If Iran
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  Speaker 2: decided we wanted to blow up Israel and that's what
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  Speaker 2: they were going to do and bring about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the apocalypse, which is one of their objectives, which is
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  Speaker 2: one of the things big picture that they want to do.
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  Speaker 2: So taking away that threat is the reason we've been given.
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  Speaker 2: Some possible good side effects from it would be regime
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  Speaker 2: change and you know, women not being oppressed. That would
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  Speaker 2: be wonderful. You would think that all of the women
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  Speaker 2: in America who have been you know, screaming and crying
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  Speaker 2: about you know, the fact that there have been groups
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  Speaker 2: misrepresented or mishandled in America, you would think that's a
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  Speaker 2: group that they should be sticking up for. They should
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  Speaker 2: be saying, hey, the women of Iran, who you know,
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  Speaker 2: fifty years ago had jobs in science teachers and they
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  Speaker 2: had many more freedoms than women today can even imagine.
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  Speaker 2: And a regime change would be.
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  Speaker 3: Great for that.
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  Speaker 2: So that would be a positive that everybody should be
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  Speaker 2: able to go. If that happens for those women there,
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  Speaker 2: and that happens for the Middle East and starts to
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  Speaker 2: maybe even become something that people might think about changing,
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  Speaker 2: that would be amazing. But for now, just preventing Israel
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  Speaker 2: from being blown off the map should be incentive enough.
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  Speaker 3: Four years ago.
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  Speaker 2: The reason that the gas prices went up. What we
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  Speaker 2: were told is this is what's best for all of
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  Speaker 2: us because of green energy. So there's a big difference
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  Speaker 2: between trying to prevent Israel from being destroyed in the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of World War three and possibly the end of
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  Speaker 2: the world as we know it. Pardon the ram quote
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  Speaker 2: because in my head also all I could think, I'd
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  Speaker 2: realize I'd done. And then you go back to four
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  Speaker 2: years ago, when they were putting money in the pockets
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  Speaker 2: of people who had invested into green energy.
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  Speaker 3: That's what they were doing. That's what was happening. That's
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  Speaker 3: what was happening four years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Let's turn off our pumps, let's turn off our pipelines,
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  Speaker 2: let's turn off whatever we've got. We're going to buy
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  Speaker 2: gas from overseas. We're going to get our fuel from overseas,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to fund We're gonna get from Russia,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to basically fund Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: and let them begin that war. And then we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be all, oh, I can't believe they're doing that.
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  Speaker 2: And we were sending money to them so that they
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  Speaker 2: could invade them. That wasn't our intention, but that's what
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  Speaker 2: they did with it. So we were funding that knowing
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  Speaker 2: that there's been some history between Biden and Ukraine, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some bad blood there in the past. He had to
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  Speaker 2: line him up before he'd give them some money, which
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  Speaker 2: was something that they later accused Trump of doing, which
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  Speaker 2: they had no evidence of. Biden openly admitted to doing
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  Speaker 2: it once and bragged about it. So it's different. It
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  Speaker 2: is different. We should all be concerned about the price
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  Speaker 2: of gas.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: All I can say is that four years ago people
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  Speaker 2: were making money off of it. A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: in politics were making money off of it. The people
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes that were signing the paperwork with the
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  Speaker 2: autopen by that point, they were standing, I'm sure to
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  Speaker 2: make very good money off of it, and we were
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  Speaker 2: suffering and there was no like, what was the benefit
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  Speaker 2: that was coming out of it, you know, causing harm
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  Speaker 2: and long term is still a war going on with
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine and Russia that we helped start by accident but
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  Speaker 2: inadvertently or you know what's going on now preventing Israel
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  Speaker 2: from being blown off the map, or attempting to blow
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  Speaker 2: it off the map. But honestly, if it's a nuclear warhead.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be bad. It's an understatement, but it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be bad. But at least at least there
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  Speaker 2: is the possibility if what we're doing now with a
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're paying more at the pump. I don't
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  Speaker 2: like it, but if that ultimately leads to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a twelve year old girl in a few years being
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  Speaker 2: able to get in the car and drive without permission
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  Speaker 2: from elders in her neighborhood or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: The rules are, that would be great. I'd like that
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  Speaker 3: for her.
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  Speaker 2: the break, Well, we know AI is having an impact
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  Speaker 2: an impact on a number of things. But one of
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  Speaker 2: those things it makes life easier in some ways. However,
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  Speaker 2: one of the other ways that it is apparently impacting
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  Speaker 2: us as a society, as a culture, as a people
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  Speaker 2: three main types of AI addiction. One group using chatbots
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  Speaker 2: a friend, a partner, or a constant companion. And the
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  Speaker 2: answers late into the night. So word of caution, if
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  Speaker 2: you're one of those people that's using AI for any
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  Speaker 2: of these things, there is an addictive quality to it
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  Speaker 2: and it could get you.
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  Speaker 3: Is that fair?
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  Speaker 2: Is that a fair way to put Just be ready
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  Speaker 2: as your relationship with AI, that's a fair way to
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  Speaker 2: start to noticing, and it's a slippery slope, so just
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  Speaker 3: The information thing can be.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that I don't use it for either of
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  Speaker 2: the other things at all. I've used it for information
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  Speaker 2: doing research on certain things, and I do find the
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  Speaker 2: easiness of asking sort of the next question. It's almost
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  Speaker 2: like when you were a kid and I did this.
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  Speaker 2: to and then I'll read that. And we sort of
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  Speaker 2: are guilty of doing that on the internet anyway, but
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to AI, it's just a much faster
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty quick. Not that I've gotten into any of
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  Speaker 2: aware of it, that's all I'm saying. Quiet thriving Have
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  Speaker 2: We're seeing that reflected in a little lot of job
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  Speaker 2: or whatever as they get hired. Quiet thriving not the
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  Speaker 2: same as quiet quitting, giving up or any of those
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  Speaker 2: in the gen Z group, thriving looks like having one
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  Speaker 2: benefit from this. I was talking with a group of
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  Speaker 2: And I think, you know, maybe a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: mayberry in our lives would be nice. You know, on
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  Speaker 2: the Endi Griffiths Show, Sundays came around, everything was basically
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  Speaker 2: shut down and made things just You took advantage of
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  Speaker 2: about getting a dog and wondering what the expense will be.
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  Speaker 2: A new study from Healthy Pause shows over four grand
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  Speaker 2: a year. It says that's the cost pet owners can
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  Speaker 2: expect when you factor in food, medical care, grooming, all
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  Speaker 2: the little indulgences that you can't resist. Also a lot
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  Speaker 2: of unexpected expenses. New dog owners don't think about dental work,
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  Speaker 2: dog walkers boarding.
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  Speaker 3: It all adds up.
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  Speaker 2: But we know it's worth it one hundred percent, it's
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  Speaker 2: worth it, thousand percent.
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  Speaker 3: It's worth it. My dog is sitting there looking at me.
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  Speaker 3: You're worth it, you know you are.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess one of the things about this, and
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  Speaker 2: seems like it's part of that doesn't feel like it's
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  Speaker 3: When you go to the vet.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's one where you go, okay, vet bill,
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  Speaker 2: got it. But the little things, you know, the toys
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  Speaker 2: or you know, any of those kinds of things, they
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure we don't spend four thousand dollars a year,
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  Speaker 2: I feel confident in that that'll do it for this
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