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  Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody. It's Monday morning, January twelfth. And Neil
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now, New Year's resolution.
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  Speaker 2: I I go to a gym three times a week,
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  Speaker 2: and the last few times that I have gone since
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of January, I cannot find a parking space
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  Speaker 2: in the parking lot. It is jammed with people. And
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  Speaker 2: it's easy for me. I have a trainer because I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to go by myself. I have a trainer,
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  Speaker 2: and I always say the same thing to the trainer,
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  Speaker 2: and that is and I insist whenever I'm working out
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  Speaker 2: on the machines, I always tell them I want to
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  Speaker 2: be next to the fat, ugly people. So I just
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  Speaker 2: feel better. You know, these hard bodies drive me completely crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I feel they put you next to a mirror.
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  Speaker 2: No, that is actually not bad. There it goes my
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  Speaker 2: next conversation. Thank you, neil Oh, you beat me to it.
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  Speaker 2: And why is it so jammed? Well because of New
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  Speaker 2: Year's resolutions and those of us who have been going.
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  Speaker 1: I've been going for the last six months this gym,
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  Speaker 1: both of it.
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  Speaker 2: And you can't really tell ken I don't look like
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to a gym.
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  Speaker 1: Not true. I will tell you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm proud of the fact that you have been so
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  Speaker 3: dedicated to working out, and people notice it. When we
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  Speaker 3: do live events together. People are always saying how great
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  Speaker 3: you look. And I agree, you've been very consistent with
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  Speaker 3: walking and going to the gym when I know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I walk an hour a day and I
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  Speaker 2: do that because, you know, as I hit my seventies,
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, what you fall apart. If not, you're
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're just not doing as well. So with
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  Speaker 2: that resolutions, The Washington Post asked a thousand Americans about
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  Speaker 2: their New Year's resolutions and a couple of things.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give you, and then we're going to
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  Speaker 1: go around the room.
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  Speaker 2: The number, the percentage of people that actually make New
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  Speaker 2: Year's resolutions forty eight percent. Fifty two don't even bother
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  Speaker 2: because they know it's just not going to work. Right. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to look better, Yeah, look in the mirror,
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  Speaker 2: Give me a break. Right, I'm going to eat better. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: go to Costco and get a burrito or two. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to happen all right. Oh I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to smoke less, or I'm not going to smoke at all.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you have to unplug your smoke detector at home,
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  Speaker 2: because there's so much smoke going on.
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  Speaker 1: So give me a break. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Young adults are most likely to make New Year's resolutions.
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  Speaker 2: The older you get, the fewer you make. And that
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  Speaker 2: makes sense because you spent a lifetime of making New
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  Speaker 2: Year's resolution, which of course you've never kept, so you
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  Speaker 2: just give up the ghost. And so the poll, and
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  Speaker 2: this is of course a poll the thousand people ask
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  Speaker 2: respondents to describe their New Year's resolutions in their own words.
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  Speaker 1: Four and ten forty percent.
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  Speaker 2: Improving their physical health, give me a break. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to fall apart and you're about to die four in
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  Speaker 2: ten sided. Goals related to mental health. That's very important
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  Speaker 2: for our crew here, mental health, spirituality or personal relationship.
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  Speaker 2: My big one is spirituality. I am a very big
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  Speaker 2: spiritual kind of guy. Matter of fact, spiritual is my
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  Speaker 2: Spiritual is my middle name.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta pray more. In twenty twenty six, are you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Thirty seven percent made financial goals. Okay, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to make more money and that's always good plan to
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  Speaker 2: focus on hobbies or to make household improvements.
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  Speaker 1: Now, how many people make household improvements?
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  Speaker 2: You? Neil, you are the diy kind of guy in
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  Speaker 2: the biggest I mean you build houses by yourself.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I tell you if you know, I do love.
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  Speaker 3: I do love fixing things. And I was up at
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  Speaker 3: our cabin and big Bear and a lot of fixing.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: You buy.
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  Speaker 2: What you do is you buy a cabin in your
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  Speaker 2: case as far apart and you fix it yourself. I
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  Speaker 2: mean you put in every I mean it's just astounding
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  Speaker 2: the kind of stuff that you make.
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  Speaker 1: Duct tape and popsicle sticks. No, that's what I do.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I hire. No, I don't do it myself.
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  Speaker 2: I hire people to put duct tape and popsicle sticks together.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The Washington Post did a survey asked a thousand Americans
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  Speaker 2: to describe New Year's resolutions, and.
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  Speaker 1: Forty eight percent made them.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty two percent of the people that were asked didn't
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  Speaker 2: even make New Year's resolutions. Also, the younger you are,
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  Speaker 2: the more you make New Year's resolutions, because those of
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  Speaker 2: us who.
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  Speaker 1: Are beyond our young years, well.
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  Speaker 2: We just don't make them because we're sort of sick
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  Speaker 2: of making them. And of course, not going through. Physical
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  Speaker 2: health topped the list that no surprising, followed by weight loss,
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  Speaker 2: no surprise, trying to eat healthier, and you've got my
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  Speaker 2: favorite one is the ones of personal relationships and more spirituality. Because,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, if you are making if you're making
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  Speaker 2: a resolution to increase your spirituality, believe me, you and
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  Speaker 2: I aren't hanging out.
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  Speaker 1: That's all there is to it.
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  Speaker 3: Did you resolve to decrease your spirituality?
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  Speaker 1: You can't squelch it a little more. I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, there's no way I can swelch it anymore. All right,
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  Speaker 2: So let me go around the room and talk a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about New Year's resolutions, starting.
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  Speaker 1: With Amy, Amy, did you even make a New Year's resolution?
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  Speaker 4: I did not, And here's why.
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  Speaker 1: Because last year.
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  Speaker 4: At this time you asked us, Hey, do you guys
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  Speaker 4: have New Year's resolutions? And I said, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: I did make one. I'm going to organize my little
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  Speaker 4: apartment and declutter and clear it out. And a year
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, you know what, this year, I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: organize my apartment and declutter and clear it out.
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  Speaker 1: So no, okay for you.
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  Speaker 2: So Amy decides she's gonna stay a hoarder and footsteps. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there will be a television show, a segment of Hoarders
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  Speaker 2: is going to be done on her apartment.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I will.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going around the room new Year's resolutions, yes or no? Sure,
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  Speaker 2: And this one's probably pretty obvious based on my progress
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  Speaker 2: so far.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm by July, I'm gonna look like Brad Pitt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that's gonna work out. Well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, let's talk about mirrors at your house. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that are important. No, that is correct, I can understand that.
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  Speaker 2: And second of all, are we talking about morphology, body morphology,
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  Speaker 2: body dysfunction. I'm gonna have a nice little waistline in
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  Speaker 2: a big chest, and you know that'll be that. And
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  Speaker 2: then you wake up and you realize that's just not
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  Speaker 2: the case.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. Okay, and are are you having a
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  Speaker 1: new Year's resolution? Yes or no? Yes? Okay, what's your
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  Speaker 1: new Year's resolution? To take more like vitamins or just
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  Speaker 1: be better?
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  Speaker 4: I eat well, but I think I need The older
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  Speaker 4: you get, the more you need kind of more in
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  Speaker 4: your diet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and I were just talking about this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm now going to Costco three times a week
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  Speaker 2: to buy frozen burritos instead of two times a week.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Neil, New Year's resolutions for you. I don't
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  Speaker 1: make them, but I have like plans.
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  Speaker 3: I plan to start building a.
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  Speaker 2: House, an apartment, building a skyscraper.
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  Speaker 3: I pause because I'm like, I shouldn't say it's an
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  Speaker 3: R two D two unit from from ground up.
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  Speaker 1: Fully working robot Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Said, for those of you that are listening and think
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  Speaker 2: Neil is crazy, he will have a fully functional real
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  Speaker 2: life size RTD rd RG.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, will probably take me about two years.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you should make a life size R two D
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  Speaker 4: two that looks like a can of w D forty.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that would be great. All right, cono New Year's resolution. No,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're stupid.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, I tend to agree, with you. It
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  Speaker 3: was to get a new car, and he's it's going
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  Speaker 3: to work out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, poor Kono on his car blew up yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And I you know what, I I actually have a
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  Speaker 2: new Year's resolution then I want to share with you.
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  Speaker 2: And my resolution is to never ever make a New
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  Speaker 2: Year's resolution. And uh, it's going to keep here. I
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  Speaker 2: think you'll keep it. Yeah, this year, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: keep it. So you know, as I said in the
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  Speaker 2: previous segment, which drives me nuts. And this is sort
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  Speaker 2: of the poster child the new Year's resolution. The gym
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  Speaker 2: I go to, you can't find a parking spot. And
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  Speaker 2: for the weight machines that I use. The machines one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that I don't do. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: exercises happen on the ground, you know, crunches and those
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  Speaker 2: sort of things you do on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: I will not get on the ground. I have to sit.
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  Speaker 1: And as my trainer.
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  Speaker 2: Says, you are the laziest trainee I have ever had,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, that is absolutely correct and that will
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  Speaker 2: continue on for my entire life. Okay, fun topic I
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  Speaker 2: want to share with you, and that is gen Z.
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  Speaker 2: Talk a lot about the gen Z.
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  Speaker 1: Lack of talk. Talking is harming cognitive health.
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  Speaker 2: I mean for all of us young adults today struggle
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  Speaker 2: to make an appointment, ask a question, dispute a bill,
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  Speaker 2: and if they manage to leave a message and get
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  Speaker 2: a call back, they may not even answer. And this
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  Speaker 2: has expanded beyond telephobia, craving closeness, now reluctant to engage
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  Speaker 2: in face to face conversations. Opting for texting may seem convenient,
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  Speaker 2: but it's costing this generation more ways than they realize.
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  Speaker 1: And what will it take to get gen Z or
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  Speaker 1: all of us talking?
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  Speaker 2: And the social consequences are obvious. Businesses are starting to
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  Speaker 2: worry that young employees won't be able to engage effectively
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  Speaker 2: with coworkers and customers, which is why so many businesses are.
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  Speaker 1: Saying we don't want remote work, we want you here.
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  Speaker 2: Young adults are lonelier, Dating is declining, friend groups are shrinking.
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  Speaker 2: Penises are more flaccid, by the way. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if it's true or not, but I just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get your attention. Talking is an important brain exercise.
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  Speaker 1: This is what studies showed. This is out of.
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  Speaker 2: The Washington Post, and again this is looking at science
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  Speaker 2: why Because talking enhances are cognition.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever put that together.
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  Speaker 2: Young adults frequently listen to other people's speech why and how,
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  Speaker 2: via podcast, YouTube, TikTok, and they don't provide the same
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  Speaker 2: cognitive the same cognition. Young adults just don't listen to
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  Speaker 2: people face to face because why you know, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know this. By the way, the mental effort required to
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  Speaker 2: speak is much greater than that just listening and understanding.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking is important.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about goals boost mental focus and follow through. Athletes,
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  Speaker 2: they'll tell you the routinely routinely coach to talk to
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  Speaker 2: themselves to improse, improve perseverance, to improve how they play.
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  Speaker 2: Coaches are constantly telling athletes talk to yourself, tell yourself
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  Speaker 2: you're going to do okay. I always look down at
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  Speaker 2: my waist and I say you're gonna do better. I
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  Speaker 2: talk to myself and it doesn't seem to work in
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  Speaker 2: my case, unfortunately. So this really didn't hit home for me, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 2: But the reality is this really is this is real.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking about a topic speeds up learning against science, makes
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  Speaker 2: it more durable, It sticks with you.
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  Speaker 1: And continues to tune tune our brains.
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  Speaker 2: All the way to old age, when high rates of
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  Speaker 2: social socializing guards against dementia, because there is a link
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  Speaker 2: between silence and dementia. Again, this is a study done
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  Speaker 2: by or referred to by the Washington Post. So why
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  Speaker 2: do we avoid talking? Well, the pandemic is one likely culprit.
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  Speaker 2: It removed opportunities for young people to practice socializing. We
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  Speaker 2: know it couldn't practice during that time. And this is
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  Speaker 2: while they transition to adulthood, because in certain cases we're
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  Speaker 2: still talking about remote work, which further reduces talking practice
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  Speaker 2: and degrades social skills.
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  Speaker 1: And it does.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look at this, I don't talk to people.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I'm talking, But do you think I'm listening
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  Speaker 2: to myself?
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  Speaker 1: I am not.
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  Speaker 2: Do I listen to any of you on the air
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  Speaker 2: talking to me, of course not. Do I pay attention
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  Speaker 2: when you leave a message calling me a dick?
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  Speaker 1: Of course I don't.
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  Speaker 2: And the point is is that my life skills, my
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  Speaker 2: social skills.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say they are questionable. Wouldn't you say, Neil.
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  Speaker 2: Defined social any connection to humanity in any way?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're okay, they're on the weaker side. Okay, fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: So therefore it's kind of important that I do talk
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  Speaker 2: well well, when I am with people, I do talk.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what Leaving messages on the phone and getting a
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  Speaker 2: phone call back is critically important. And you know that
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  Speaker 2: Lindsey always makes fun of me. You know, Lindsay's a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years younger than I am, and she texts
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  Speaker 2: and emails and whenever I leave messages, she makes fun
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  Speaker 2: of me. And if you listen to her message, if
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  Speaker 2: you call her on her phone, her messages. I don't
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  Speaker 2: listen to messages either text me or email me.
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  Speaker 1: Have you noticed people do that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't pay attention to messages. Effectively, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to talk. I don't want to speak to you. Let's
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  Speaker 2: speak via email or texts.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously day it transcribes your voicemail anyways, it does.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not the same.
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  Speaker 2: But it is not the same because the response gets cryptic.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have long I leave long messages I do.
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  Speaker 2: They just ramble on and on and people don't don't
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  Speaker 2: particularly like it. Here's what happens. It's a visious cycle
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  Speaker 2: because people that don't talk gravitate to non talking activities,
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  Speaker 2: looking at their.
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  Speaker 1: Phones, moving through life with earbuds.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I see that at the gym constantly discourages
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  Speaker 2: anyone from striking up conversations like I want to strike
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  Speaker 2: up conversations with people that don't have earbuds, give me
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  Speaker 2: a break. And less frequent talking directed towards the elderly
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  Speaker 2: who watch a lot of TV but talk very little.
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  Speaker 2: That's a problem because researchers have said, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: get older adults talking more.
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  Speaker 1: There's the program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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  Speaker 2: It's called Adulting one oh one, which actually teaches or
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  Speaker 2: teaches that treating talking is a teachable skill.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what does that tell you?
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  Speaker 2: All Right, we're done with that, and don't talk to me,
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  Speaker 2: don't leave me a message. I'm just not interested. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: never mind. I was going to go in a different direction,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't have time. All right now, I want
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  Speaker 2: to share with you a program that's not very well known.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start with We've got dreamers who are here in
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  Speaker 2: this country right who have come as a youngster, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: very young, brought over by illegal alien parents, illegal migrants,
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  Speaker 2: who have no idea they're illegal kids until they go
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  Speaker 2: and get a driver's license, for example, oops, And they
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  Speaker 2: can be deported and are they being deported. That's questionable.
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  Speaker 2: The other group of people are those that are born
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  Speaker 2: in this country of illegal migrants.
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  Speaker 1: They are citizens.
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  Speaker 2: Even though our president is moving for a birthright citizenship,
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  Speaker 2: which means that someone who is born here of an
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  Speaker 2: illegal migrant is not a citizen in the United States. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be a tough one because the fourteenth
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  Speaker 2: Amendment specifically says if you are born here, you are
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  Speaker 2: a citizen of the United States. So what happens, especially
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  Speaker 2: now people are sweating bullets. There is a program called
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  Speaker 2: the Parole in Place program, and this has to do
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  Speaker 2: with enlisting in the military. Now, we start with only
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  Speaker 2: US citizens and permanent residents are eligible to enlist in
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  Speaker 2: the military. However, this program that was launched in twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: provides undocumented parents and spouses of service members protection from
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  Speaker 2: deportation and gives them an expedited pathway to permanent residency.
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  Speaker 1: So here's what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Is the program is in place, the kid is legal
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  Speaker 2: born in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: The child then serves in the military.
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  Speaker 2: Because he or she's an American citizen, and under Parole
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  Speaker 2: in Place, then requests the documentation the status of parents
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  Speaker 2: now being able to become US citizens were certainly able
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  Speaker 2: to be free of deportation. And there's the double hit here,
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  Speaker 2: which is a really good hit.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a big fan of this program.
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  Speaker 2: When you think about it, not only does it help
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  Speaker 2: people who are related to those who serve in the military,
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  Speaker 2: because those who serve in the military are on another
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  Speaker 2: level than those of us who have not served in
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  Speaker 2: the military. There's another level of patriotism, one way of
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  Speaker 2: looking at it.
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  Speaker 1: But it also helps recruiting. It helps recruiting.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if someone is tossed dishonorable discharge or leaves or
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  Speaker 2: other than serving honorably, then the parents are no longer eligible.
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  Speaker 2: So you have some serious commitment to someone serving in
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  Speaker 2: the military. Not only do we get a really qualified,
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  Speaker 2: motivated member of the military, we also have a situation
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  Speaker 2: where kids who are born in this country can bring
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  Speaker 2: their parents into the program, which.
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  Speaker 1: Saves them from deportation.
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  Speaker 2: Now, keep in mind we're talking about illegal migrants who
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  Speaker 2: are wide open for deportation.
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  Speaker 1: And if you think, as Christine Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: Says, we're only going after the worst of the worst, well,
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  Speaker 2: the worst of the worst pick strawberries and they work
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  Speaker 2: at they sit in front of home depot and try
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  Speaker 2: to get a job for a casual labor.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the worst of the worst. So who are
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  Speaker 1: we kidding?
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  Speaker 2: And the Hispanic community is sweating bullets, I mean sweating bullets,
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  Speaker 2: as they should because of the policy today of the
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  Speaker 2: US government and ICE. So their story after story, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to see more and more people lining up to
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  Speaker 2: join the military.
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  Speaker 1: And it makes a great deal of sense.
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  Speaker 2: And can you imagine You've got a family member, you
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  Speaker 2: have parents and who are on either the verge or
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  Speaker 2: frightened of being deported, and they're not leaving the house
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  Speaker 2: and they're not showing up to work because of the
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  Speaker 2: legitimate fear of deportation. And you join the military, they
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  Speaker 2: apply for the program and now we're home free. Not
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  Speaker 2: only are they saved from deportation, they're now on a
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  Speaker 2: pathway to citizenship and are protected from deportation. So as
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  Speaker 2: far as I'm concerned, it's a win win all the
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  Speaker 2: way around. Okay, we are done, guys, and it's a Monday.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Neil is back, Will is back, and the rest of
• 22:40
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• 22:45
  Speaker 1: And I am here.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: So Michael Monks is with Shannon today and we're back
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