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Strategically Changing the Subject · 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. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, thirteenth day of May. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. A lot happened yesterday. It was a lot
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Speaker 2: going on yesterday, a lot to process, A lot going
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Speaker 2: on yesterday. First and foremost, I guess yesterday morning there
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Speaker 2: was a word about the China and the US coming
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Speaker 2: up with a temporary terror for agreement and they've basically
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Speaker 2: bought some more time for more negotiations. It depends on
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Speaker 2: what colored glasses you are looking at this news. As
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Speaker 2: Republicans say, hey, this is a step towards in the
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Speaker 2: right direction, towards getting things done. Trump, who has always
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Speaker 2: been known as if nothing else, it doesn't matter what
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Speaker 2: you think of Trump or have thought of Trump over
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Speaker 2: the years, He's always been known had a reputation for
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Speaker 2: being a fantastic negotiator. I mean, that's that's what a
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Speaker 2: lot of Americans were hoping for with the first presidency.
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Speaker 2: That's what they were hoping for with this second term.
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Speaker 2: So that's basically what all this tariff stuff has been
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Speaker 2: about from the beginning. This is about someone who is
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Speaker 2: you know, ready to negotiate, ready to call bluffs, ready
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Speaker 2: to you know, watch other countries fold under pressure. And
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Speaker 2: of course on the left they look at this as
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Speaker 2: this is Trump failing at his strategy, his long term plan.
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Speaker 2: I've seen that commentary a little bit since yesterday. I
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Speaker 2: can tell you this, and just I have a basic
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Speaker 2: general understanding of tariff, so I think I've got a
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Speaker 2: pretty decent feel for what the President's strategy is with
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Speaker 2: all of this. And I can tell you this. The
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Speaker 2: people who a week ago, two weeks ago were complaining
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Speaker 2: because they can't buy cheap garbage from Timu, it's making
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Speaker 2: it really tough for me to get that cheap. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe it's some Quali fine quality products. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. I know the Timu and TikTok are you
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Speaker 2: know Chinese companies. You got to sign away a lot
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Speaker 2: of a lot of your soul to be a part
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Speaker 2: of those things, to download those apps. So I haven't
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Speaker 2: I haven't ventured into the Timu world, but I know
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Speaker 2: people who swear by it, and they say, hey, you
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Speaker 2: can get some good stuff and you can get it
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Speaker 2: for cheap, and that's fine. I'm not opposed to that.
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Speaker 2: I've probably bought things that people have bought from sites
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Speaker 2: like Timu. There's a couple other sites like that, but
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Speaker 2: they buy them and then sell them again, like on Amazon,
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Speaker 2: and I've probably been guilty of doing that, which you know,
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Speaker 2: maybe that's the case, but again I don't. I have
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Speaker 2: avoided TikTok and Timu just on principle alone. You know,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure they're tracking me in other ways. I'm sure
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Speaker 2: there's plenty of other ways that they're tracking me and
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Speaker 2: they know what I'm doing, but that's just me. So basically,
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Speaker 2: we saw stock market responded yesterday because of all of this,
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Speaker 2: and you know, that's been the thing. It's been, well,
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Speaker 2: you know, the cost of everything is going to go
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Speaker 2: up because of tariffs, and then stock market is going
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Speaker 2: to suffer because of tariffs, and you can't buy cheap
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Speaker 2: stuff from Timu. So that was it. And then basically
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Speaker 2: I assume that will open the door for companies like
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Speaker 2: Timu to start tracking where you are and what you're
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Speaker 2: doing and who you're talking to and listening on your
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Speaker 2: phones and all that stuff. We'll get back to that,
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Speaker 2: I assume. I mean, I don't know what all the
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Speaker 2: inner workings of all of this, how this plays out
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Speaker 2: over the next few months as the temporary agreement goes through.
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Speaker 2: I know that things have stabilized, we're back at a
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Speaker 2: more reasonable tariff amount on both sides. So but people
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Speaker 2: that I mean, I know people who complained about losing
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Speaker 2: access to some of these sites of getting things from China.
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Speaker 2: And and let me let me just say this, because
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Speaker 2: I am a I am a free market guy. Look,
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Speaker 2: I am a firm believer in letting markets do their thing.
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Speaker 2: I remember though, and we've talked a little bit about
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Speaker 2: some of the changes we've seen play out in the
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Speaker 2: in the country, the flip that's taken place where Republicans
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Speaker 2: were perceived as being you know, anti blue collar middle
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Speaker 2: class and now champions of of the of the working
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Speaker 2: per that's a person now the working person, the blue
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Speaker 2: collar person, and Democrats are the ones fighting for, you know,
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Speaker 2: the extremely wealthy people to be able to continue to
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Speaker 2: be extremely wealthy by you know, running these government funded agencies,
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Speaker 2: right so, these NGOs and pocketing money and you know,
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Speaker 2: because it's affecting them directly and they're struggling with it.
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Speaker 2: Democrats used to be all four having you know, behind
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Speaker 2: the scenes, rich guys funding all of their causes and
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Speaker 2: helping to put judges in places that we're still seeing
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Speaker 2: all of the stuff we're seeing with these judges that
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Speaker 2: are doing everything they can when it comes to immigration,
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Speaker 2: are you know all funded George Soros and his son
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Speaker 2: now and you know behind the scenes, the hidden the
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Speaker 2: phantom menace, if you will funding all these things. And
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Speaker 2: then Elon must his head up and says publicly, I'm
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Speaker 2: going to support the guy that's going to try to
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Speaker 2: keep us out of World War III, and the guy
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Speaker 2: that's going to try to help, you know, stand up
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Speaker 2: for our First Amendment rights, our Second Amendment rights. Someone
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Speaker 2: who's going to step in and say, look, we should
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Speaker 2: have some of these freedoms that are God given that
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Speaker 2: we should be able to have right. We should be
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Speaker 2: able to have our freedom of expression and speech and
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Speaker 2: not worry about cancel culture. We should be able to
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Speaker 2: have those things. And people said, ah, the rich guys
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Speaker 2: trying to run the country, as if there wasn't a
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Speaker 2: rich guy on the other side trying to run the country.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know that Elon Musk is trying to
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Speaker 2: run the country. I definitely think he's been supportive of
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Speaker 2: Trump in a number of ways, but I think primarily
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Speaker 2: he's been supportive of us the taxpayer, and that's what's important.
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Speaker 2: So that's one of those things that's definitely changed. And
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Speaker 2: it's also changed. This is also interesting. I saw this
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Speaker 2: over the weekend and some people in a social media
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Speaker 2: feed complaining about one of the changes it took place.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know all the specifics on I know
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Speaker 2: that there was a point where, like through the library
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Speaker 2: you could get some like zou Atlanta tickets and that's
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Speaker 2: wrapping up soon, and people were complaining about Trump, can
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Speaker 2: you believe Trump is you know, this administration is not
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Speaker 2: supporting the funding for these things, and that part of
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Speaker 2: it you just kind of okay, well, they're venting about
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Speaker 2: something that may be a perk that they're going to
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Speaker 2: be able to lose access to. I get that. What
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Speaker 2: was interesting to me is that it turned into a
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Speaker 2: religious discussion of you know, well, the Jesus I believe
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Speaker 2: in would be for this, and you just and I
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Speaker 2: started thinking, how can these people that claim to be
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Speaker 2: Christians support Donald Trump? And again, that's one of those
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Speaker 2: things that's drastically changed. There was a point and again
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Speaker 2: I always reference back to the early nineties when when
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Speaker 2: I was about to become a voter and I was
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Speaker 2: getting registered to vote, and I was certainly becoming more aware.
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Speaker 2: That that age where you start to become more aware
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Speaker 2: of things if you're paying attention. Not everybody is. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: they're just being told by their parents or some authority
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Speaker 2: to a teacher or someone that like, this is how
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Speaker 2: you're supposed to think, this is how you're supposed to vote,
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Speaker 2: this is how you're supposed to act. That's what some
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Speaker 2: people are dealing with. But if you start really thinking
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Speaker 2: on your own and starting to get a basic understanding
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Speaker 2: of I don't know, civics or nation's founding and all
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Speaker 2: those things. But anyway, so back then, you know that
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Speaker 2: you'd have people that on the on the right would
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Speaker 2: say things like, oh, if only we were a theocracy,
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Speaker 2: you know, I know that's that's not what the founders
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Speaker 2: fought for. Uh and uh, there's a lot of theocracies
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Speaker 2: on the planet and those don't you know that You
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Speaker 2: start thinking crusades, you start thinking about you know, there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of problems that can come from that, and
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Speaker 2: that's not really what America was intended to be. Now,
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Speaker 2: the founders were expecting people to be self governed, and
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Speaker 2: they were expecting people to have a religious background, but
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Speaker 2: not the country being run by God in heaven. That
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Speaker 2: wasn't the intention. And it's weird that we now have
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Speaker 2: folks on the left that are saying that, and I'm
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Speaker 2: seeing more of that, like, how can these how can
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Speaker 2: these Christians support Donald Trump? How can these Christians support
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Speaker 2: free thought, free expression and smaller government? How can they
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Speaker 2: support these things? How can they not support you know,
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Speaker 2: big government and waste just constant waste and anyway. So
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Speaker 2: that's another thing that's that's changed, I guess drastically. But
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Speaker 2: then this idea of hey, the stock market, it's you know,
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Speaker 2: it has a response to the tariffs, and people are
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Speaker 2: they don't want to acknowledge that. The other thing that
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Speaker 2: it's also kind of interesting in this ties into some
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Speaker 2: of this stuff too. But I talk about saving us
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Speaker 2: some money and waste, you know, Katar says they want
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Speaker 2: to give there's been an issue with getting the new
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Speaker 2: Boeing planes for Air Force One, and Katar says they
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Speaker 2: want to give the US Department of Defense. They want
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Speaker 2: to give a brand new luxury jet to be used
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Speaker 2: as Air Force one, and they're going through all the procedures.
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Speaker 2: They're going through all the legal stuff to make sure
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Speaker 2: that everything all the eyes are dotted and the t's
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Speaker 2: are crossed. That's what they're trying to do. They're going
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Speaker 2: through this whole process to make sure that everything is
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Speaker 2: above board. And yesterday, as the President was he was
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Speaker 2: signing this executive order to cut the cost of drug prices,
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Speaker 2: something that a lot of Democrats have, by the way,
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Speaker 2: been fighting for some of the very things in this
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Speaker 2: executive order. There are Democrats going, we've been fighting for this.
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Speaker 2: He's doing it, and you know, we should acknowledge that.
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Speaker 2: And of course, no, you can't acknowledge that. You have
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Speaker 2: to you can't. If he did it, it must be bad.
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Speaker 2: Trump has cut prices for drugs before, and just to
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Speaker 2: have the Biden administration cancel that executive order and then
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Speaker 2: redo the executive order almost word for word, just so
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Speaker 2: that they can say that they did it, when in reality,
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Speaker 2: the Trump administration had done that already. But anyway, so
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Speaker 2: during this signing, as Trump is sitting there pen in
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Speaker 2: hand signing his name on this executive order, you had
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Speaker 2: reporters calling out questions to him, and one of them
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Speaker 2: was Rachel Scott from ABC. What do you say to
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Speaker 2: people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift
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Speaker 2: to you? And you know, the tiger didn't go crazy.
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Speaker 2: The tiger went Tiger, Trump went Trump on her. You're
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Speaker 2: ABC fake news, right. Let me tell you you should
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Speaker 2: be embarrassed asking that question. They're giving us a free jet.
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Speaker 2: I could say no, no, no, don't give us I
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Speaker 2: want I want to pay you a billion or four
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Speaker 2: hundred million or whatever it is. Or I could say
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Speaker 2: thank you very much, you know, And he says a
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Speaker 2: lot of people are stupid. They say no, no, I
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Speaker 2: insist on putting the ball. He's referencing. He made a
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Speaker 2: reference to the golfer Sam Snead who says, anytime you're
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Speaker 2: playing golf, if somebody has a gimme on a putt,
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Speaker 2: they tell you you can have a gimme, you don't
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Speaker 2: put the ball, and he was referencing that when he
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Speaker 2: says people are stupid they say no, no, insist on
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Speaker 2: putting in, and then they put it and they miss it.
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Speaker 2: And he says, when they give you a putt, you
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Speaker 2: pick it up and you walk to the next hole
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Speaker 2: and you say thank you very much. And he was
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Speaker 2: basically saying it would be stupid not to take the plane,
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Speaker 2: and that it's the Department of Defense that's getting the plane.
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Speaker 2: Rachel Scott said, respectfully, sir. As a businessman, some people
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Speaker 2: may look at this and say, have you ever been
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Speaker 2: given a gift worth millions of dollars and then not
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Speaker 2: received any and then he cut her off. It's not
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Speaker 2: a gift to me, it's a gift to the Department
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Speaker 2: of Defense. And you should know better because you've been
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Speaker 2: You've been embarrassed enough, and so has your network. Your
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Speaker 2: network is a disaster. ABC is a disaster. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: and I don't think it was a coincidence that she
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Speaker 2: fired this question at him while he's trying to have
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Speaker 2: a moment, and I think Americans were trying to have
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Speaker 2: this moment of hey, maybe we're all going to be
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Speaker 2: paying less for medications. I know there's some questions about
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Speaker 2: how this works and whether or not he can even
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Speaker 2: do this, but he's basically telling pharmaceutical companies that we're
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Speaker 2: not going to pay more for the medicine in the US,
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Speaker 2: so that money can go to other countries to subsidize
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Speaker 2: the medicine.
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Speaker 1: For them.
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Speaker 2: Whatever they're paying for the medicine at an equal country
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Speaker 2: to US is paying for the medicine, is what we
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Speaker 2: should be paying for it. Whether he can enforce that,
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Speaker 2: whether he's able to make all of this work, remains
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Speaker 2: to be seen, but it certainly sounds like it could
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Speaker 2: be something that will help us when it comes to
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Speaker 2: the cost of medications. Now, initially yesterday it was some
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Speaker 2: of the pharmaceutical companies were taking a hit. They kind
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Speaker 2: of recovered a bit yesterday, so we will see how
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Speaker 2: all of that plays out. But I don't think it's
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Speaker 2: a coincidence that she fired these questions at him while
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Speaker 2: he's trying to have this moment, because let's be honest,
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Speaker 2: if Joe Biden signed this executive order, I believe sainthood
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Speaker 2: would be on the line. I don't think there'd be
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Speaker 2: any questions about it. If Qatar or Cutter. I know
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Speaker 2: it was Katar forever and then it became Cutter, and
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Speaker 2: then all of a sudden it was Qatar again. I've
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Speaker 2: just never tried to leave Qatar. But anyway, if they
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Speaker 2: gave a plane to the US during the Biden administration,
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Speaker 2: he would be applauded for Oh my gosh, he saved
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Speaker 2: us a billion dollars or again, however much it costs.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. That administration probably would have said, hey,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna go ahead and build the American people for it,
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Speaker 2: and we're gonna run We're gonna run it through an NGO,
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Speaker 2: and then well, we'll pay you for it eventually, just
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Speaker 2: give us a discount. I don't know. I don't know
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Speaker 2: how they would have done it. There would have been
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Speaker 2: some ridiculous way that they would have paid for it.
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Speaker 2: And then also in the midst of all of that
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Speaker 2: is the report, of course that there were a four
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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty two illegal aliens that were caught in
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Speaker 2: a sweep and you know, ice again getting some of
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Speaker 2: the really bad criminals off the streets that have just
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Speaker 2: kind of been allowed to be in the States to
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Speaker 2: come in hang out. And I still say those are wins.
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Speaker 2: I know some people don't want those to be wins.
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Speaker 2: They want to say, how can can this be a
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Speaker 2: positive thing? These people who aren't Americans came in illegally,
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Speaker 2: nobody really officially even knew they were here, in many cases,
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Speaker 2: breaking the law, putting people's lives in danger. In some
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Speaker 2: cases have already been in and out of custody, and
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Speaker 2: then you got folks on the left saying, but they
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Speaker 2: got rights like everybody else. They're practically Americans. I think
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Speaker 2: it was a lot to cover yesterday, and it certainly
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Speaker 2: on the surface seemed like positives for White House in
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Speaker 2: the administration. But again, you know, they're not going to
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Speaker 2: give him anything when he's signing a bill that many
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Speaker 2: Democrats would have wanted some similar version of it. They're
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Speaker 2: going to cut him off and not give him an
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Speaker 2: opportunity to just sit there and say, look, I'm signing
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Speaker 2: But with that said, where some I know some schools
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Speaker 2: have already finished, I think there's some schools that are finishing,
21:38
Speaker 2: I believe on Wednesday, and then Muscogee County schools go
21:42
Speaker 2: into and some of the other schools go into next week.
21:45
Speaker 2: But stress can certainly come as we get into these
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Speaker 2: summer months. And basically a new survey revealing that as
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Speaker 2: the school year starts winding down one and three parents
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Speaker 2: brace first RESTful summertime with cost rising, trying to juggle
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Speaker 2: work and childcare, planning those activities to keep the kids entertained.
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Speaker 2: And parents say they find the end of the school
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Speaker 2: you're more stressful than the beginning of school and all
22:18
Speaker 2: the other school breaks. And I can see that too.
22:20
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a mixed bag of things, but trying
22:24
Speaker 2: to maximize the time with them. And here's the other challenge,
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Speaker 2: and this isn't even addressed in this at least the
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Speaker 2: part of the survey that I have access to. But
22:34
Speaker 2: whether or not you know you're keeping them engaged off
22:38
Speaker 2: of screens doing their summer work for schools, if they're
22:41
Speaker 2: going to a school that has summer work, all those
22:43
Speaker 2: sorts of things. Speaking of stress, we are stressed about
22:47
Speaker 2: money as Americans. New survey says financial stress is soaring.
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Speaker 2: Seventy percent of respondent said they're experiencing the highest level
22:55
Speaker 2: of financial stress in their lives, with over seventy five
22:59
Speaker 2: percent feeling completely alone and trying to cope with the pressure.
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Speaker 2: Forty percent said they have missed work or school because
23:05
Speaker 2: of stress, hitting young adults pretty hard. Millennials and gen
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Speaker 2: Z reporting the most significant mental health impacts from rising costs,
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Speaker 2: ways that people are coping fourteen percent going to therapy.
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Speaker 2: That number should be higher. That number should be higher.
23:22
Speaker 2: By the way, if you're dealing with this much stress,
23:25
Speaker 2: therapy is certainly beneficial. And I can speak to that personally.
23:31
Speaker 2: I can speak to that personally. I do have someone
23:34
Speaker 2: I speak to every week. Thirty percent say that the
23:37
Speaker 2: cost is keeping them from seeking professional help. Most are
23:41
Speaker 2: practicing self care, focusing on things like exercise, listening to music,
23:46
Speaker 2: rediscovering old hobbies, all parts of things that people are
23:49
Speaker 2: doing to try to deal with stress. So I can't
23:52
Speaker 2: say it enough. Therapy I could do. I could, I
23:55
Speaker 2: probably will at some point do a whole show on that.
23:58
Speaker 2: But finding the right person to talk to, of course,
24:01
Speaker 2: and the expense and those sorts of things that go
24:02
Speaker 2: with it. As we start getting into summer months, you
24:06
Speaker 2: may have those kids graduating and then you start thinking
24:09
Speaker 2: about sending them off to college. Well, apparently college bed
24:15
Speaker 2: parties are a thing. It's a new trend that involves
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Speaker 2: decorating their bedrooms with a bunch of items with the
24:22
Speaker 2: logo and colors of the college where your kids are
24:24
Speaker 2: gonna go, and then it gets shared on social media.
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Speaker 2: Parents spending thousands on these decorations blankets, banners, pillows, shirts, balloons,
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Speaker 2: cakes and doing okay for those small business owners in
24:39
Speaker 2: the towns, and I guess for the schools too, if
24:41
Speaker 2: they're buying official merch. So yeah, that's the thing. So
24:46
Speaker 2: prepare yourself or to get send your kid off to
24:51
Speaker 2: school with a college bed party and make sure to
24:54
Speaker 2: take lots of photos or of course it never really happened.
24:59
Speaker 2: I mean, that's an important part of it, all right.
25:02
Speaker 2: Apparently people don't really trust their neighbors or really know
25:06
Speaker 2: their neighbors. A new survey says twenty six percent of
25:08
Speaker 2: Americans say they know most or all of their neighbors.
25:11
Speaker 2: The numbers are pretty consistent among all demographic measures, age, race,
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Speaker 2: political affiliation, and income level. But not only don't we
25:19
Speaker 2: know the people who live around us, we don't trust them.
25:21
Speaker 2: Forty four percent of Americans say that they trust all
25:26
Speaker 2: of their neighbors, forty six percent said they trust some
25:28
Speaker 2: of them. And we don't have a lot of faith
25:31
Speaker 2: in our neighbors either. Even though seventy six percent said
25:34
Speaker 2: they would bring in mail or water plants for an
25:36
Speaker 2: out of town neighbor, just fifty two percent think that
25:38
Speaker 2: a neighbor would do the same thing for them. So
25:46
Speaker 2: this is a topic for me that's like, I mean,
25:49
Speaker 2: it's kind of mixed bag. I feel like I know
25:51
Speaker 2: the neighbors I need to know. I have the polite
25:54
Speaker 2: wave relationship with the neighbors that I need to have
25:58
Speaker 2: the polite wave relationship with.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: There are neighbors, one in particular that I've known for
26:04
Speaker 2: two It's a married couple I've known for a very
26:05
Speaker 2: long time, and back during COVID when when we no
26:08
Speaker 2: one had toilet paper and I knew they were in
26:12
Speaker 2: trouble for toilet paper, I got them some toilet paper
26:17
Speaker 2: at my own detriment, potential detriment. I got them some
26:21
Speaker 2: toilet paper. So there's those neighbors. And then I have,
26:25
Speaker 2: you know, a great next door neighbors, and you know,
26:30
Speaker 2: we have, you know, a great relationship, great report. You
26:33
Speaker 2: got any hope that you would have that with someone
26:35
Speaker 2: who's immediately next door. That's all not always been the
26:37
Speaker 2: case for me. And then there's a few people around
26:40
Speaker 2: the neighborhood that I know. And that's about all I need.
26:43
Speaker 2: I don't I don't need. I don't need too much socializing.
26:47
Speaker 2: It's just how I am. I don't need too much
26:49
Speaker 2: of that. I'm good. Please don't ring my doorbell and
26:52
Speaker 2: knock on my door. I've got a dog and I'm
26:55
Speaker 2: probably not wanting to be social That's just the reality
26:58
Speaker 2: of it. That'll that'll. I don't know. I mean, I
27:01
Speaker 2: would think they could trust me, but they don't really
27:03
Speaker 2: know me. I'm very cautious about who I trust. That'll
27:08
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