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Spring Break Is Not the Same · 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: Tuesday morning, third day of March. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me, and here we are working our way into
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Speaker 2: the month of March. It's say transitional month as far
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Speaker 2: as the weather goes. It's where pollen and insects and now, gosh,
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Speaker 2: I saw the bees out yesterday in full force all
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Speaker 2: over the place because things are starting to bloom. All
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Speaker 2: of the dead things, all of the dead things, the
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Speaker 2: plants that just have been bare and leafless, lifeless nothing
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Speaker 2: suddenly has all these blooms and things starting to take place,
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Speaker 2: small little leaves. And then there's the insects, the pollinators
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Speaker 2: out ready to do their thing. So it's that that's
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Speaker 2: what happens in more and things go from dull and
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Speaker 2: cold and gray and really kind of nice for I
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Speaker 2: like it. I like all the I like all the
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Speaker 2: winter stuff. And then it gets covered, starts, the pollen
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Speaker 2: starts to happen, and everything's there. And then you know,
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Speaker 2: we get warmer weather and you know, the clothing changes.
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Speaker 2: It's not comfortable and cozy anymore. We go to like
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Speaker 2: bare minimum so you're not soaked in sweat all of
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Speaker 2: those things. That's where we are and that transition is
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Speaker 2: now taking place, and I know it's important, and I
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Speaker 2: know it's to everything a season and all that. I'm
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Speaker 2: just not ready for mosquitoes. I'm not ready for ants.
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Speaker 2: I'm not ready for pollen. I'm not ready for any
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Speaker 2: of it. Sweating constantly, the AC bills. I'm just I'm
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Speaker 2: not prepared for all of that. But it's here, and
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Speaker 2: we're into March, and March it also means spring break.
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Speaker 2: We're at that point of the year as we start
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Speaker 2: thinking about spring break and maybe you've got some spring
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Speaker 2: break plans. It is a little different this year, especially
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Speaker 2: in the Southeast, as far as spring break goes, because
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Speaker 2: a lot of people in this area, the college students
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Speaker 2: at least maybe had plans to go to Mexico. Some
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Speaker 2: of them did, and that's not really safe. Little unrest
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Speaker 2: there and it's not a You probably have some if
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Speaker 2: you've got college students that still want to go to Mexico,
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Speaker 2: you probably have college students with parents saying no, no,
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Speaker 2: we're not doing that right now. That's not good. And
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Speaker 2: of course that kind of change has an impact on
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Speaker 2: other people's plans as far as where people are going
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Speaker 2: to go. And there's been this constant growing sentiment from
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Speaker 2: many cities to say, look, we don't we want the family,
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Speaker 2: we don't want the just absolute wild. Think back to
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Speaker 2: you know, twenty five years ago. Twenty five years ago,
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Speaker 2: it was you know, the Girls Gone Wild ads. They
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Speaker 2: were on TV. It was constant, especially if you were
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Speaker 2: up watching Howard Turn's TV show. Those ads were there.
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Speaker 2: They were just everywhere, and Girls Gone Wild was a thing,
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Speaker 2: and it did not bode well for places that were
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Speaker 2: having those kinds of It was a little bit of
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Speaker 2: a curtain pullback having those kinds of partying. There's parties,
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Speaker 2: those kinds of you know, foam parties and just things
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Speaker 2: getting wild, out of control wild. So and I look,
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Speaker 2: I I was back in those days. This is a
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Speaker 2: completely I don't even know if maybe I have shared
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Speaker 2: this story before. This is this is one of those things.
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Speaker 2: I was working at a top forty radio station and
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Speaker 2: at one point we were doing like a Marti Gras
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Speaker 2: party and my old boss said, hey, can you get
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Speaker 2: us some Girls Gone Wild swag to give away T
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Speaker 2: shirts and hats and things. And I said, you know,
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Speaker 2: I was the promotions director at the time, and I said,
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Speaker 2: I can reach out and see what we can do,
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Speaker 2: and I did. I reached out and they loved the
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Speaker 2: fact that we were this close to Panawa City Beach
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Speaker 2: and they said, yeah, we're there a lot and we'd
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Speaker 2: love to give you guys some stuff. And they sent
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Speaker 2: us boxes of backpacks and T shirts and all sorts
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Speaker 2: of goodies, and it was just sort of we incorporated
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Speaker 2: that into this event that we were having. It was
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Speaker 2: certainly nothing like anything on those commercials, but we were
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Speaker 2: giving away the swag. He just thought that would be
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Speaker 2: a fun thing to give away, and people wanted it.
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Speaker 2: They were like, that would be great. And so the
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Speaker 2: part of the story that gets interesting is a few
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Speaker 2: times we got some T shirts and things from these guys.
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Speaker 2: And in one particular instance, I was talking with one
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Speaker 2: of their marketing guys and he said, hey, what are
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Speaker 2: you doing on and he gave you know the date
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Speaker 2: so and so weekend and I said, why, I've learned
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Speaker 2: that's the thing that you when you're when you're kind
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Speaker 2: of really an extroverted introvert, that's the way you answer
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Speaker 2: that question. Why do you ask? You don't say nothing?
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Speaker 2: What's up? And he invited me and Jill and you know,
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Speaker 2: a handful of in some friends whoever wanted to come
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Speaker 2: down and hang out. They were going to be in
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Speaker 2: Panama City Beach recording for Girls One Wild. Now, at
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Speaker 2: no point was there ever consideration of us taking them
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Speaker 2: up on that. The only thing that was remotely interesting
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Speaker 2: about the conversation was the fact that they said, you know,
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Speaker 2: if you guys want to come down you hang out,
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Speaker 2: we'll you know, take you guys out, we'll eat and
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Speaker 2: you know whatever. And the interesting part of it was
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Speaker 2: only this, and it was just sort of for the
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Speaker 2: time that was kind of like being invited to the
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Speaker 2: Playboy mansion. We weren't going, but you just kind of go, hey,
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Speaker 2: we were invited for that anyway, so we of course
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Speaker 2: didn't go. And then that was the weekend when all
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Speaker 2: the arrests started for them as a company. That's when
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Speaker 2: the fall happened. That's when they started to you know,
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Speaker 2: the dominoes started to go down for that company. And
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Speaker 2: it was you know, obviously we weren't going to go,
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Speaker 2: but again I was thankful that we had the good
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Speaker 2: sense not to be involved in that. And anyway, that
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Speaker 2: was where things kind of started to change. For some
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Speaker 2: of these cities, and Panawa City is one of them.
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Speaker 2: Panawa City Beach at one time, you know, the Redneck Riviera,
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Speaker 2: it was wild, it was Club Lavilla, it was all
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Speaker 2: these all these party joints. And it's just they're they're
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Speaker 2: much more focused on families now and that's what they
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Speaker 2: want to do. They'd rather have families there for spring.
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Speaker 2: They're not telling college students they can't come. They're just saying,
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Speaker 2: we don't want you here going wild. We don't do
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Speaker 2: that anymore a lot. And they're not the only place.
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Speaker 2: Panama City Beach is certainly one. And actually if you're
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Speaker 2: planning to go down there for spring break, just know
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Speaker 2: ten pm to four am. They're clear in sections of
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Speaker 2: the beach they're not. This is not going to be
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Speaker 2: you know, wild and crazy the way it was. And
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Speaker 2: Miami Beach is also one. Police Chief Wayne Jones saying
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Speaker 2: that they've basically divorced spring break in Miami Beach and
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Speaker 2: he says, spring Break of the past is gone. We
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Speaker 2: will never ever go back there. And so basically, college
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Speaker 2: students have had to kind of shift thinking on this,
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Speaker 2: figure out where they want to go, where they want
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Speaker 2: to be, and this is the month for it. So
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Speaker 2: if you're a college student and you're looking for some
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Speaker 2: wild partying places, you know, I don't even know what
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Speaker 2: to tell you anymore, but I can tell you families.
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Speaker 2: They want you. They want you there with your family.
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Speaker 2: They want things a little more low key. They want
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Speaker 2: people to be able to enjoy themselves without being kept
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Speaker 2: awake all night. And I can speak very fondly and
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Speaker 2: of you know, friends at in Panama City Beach. Holiday
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Speaker 2: Inn Resort is one of those places. We've done some
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Speaker 2: stuff with partnerships with them over the years, and again
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Speaker 2: that's one of those places you can go. You can
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Speaker 2: stay there on the resort and there's food, and there's
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Speaker 2: beach and there's everything, pools, everything, fun, stuff for kids
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Speaker 2: to do, all right, bars, everything's right there. You don't
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Speaker 2: even have to leave the facility. It's kind of like
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Speaker 2: you're like a little, you know, cruise ship kind of thing.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to leave until it's time to pack
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Speaker 2: up and go home. And they welcome you for that.
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Speaker 2: They're just saying, hey, we're not going to do this
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Speaker 2: thing where it gets absolutely insane and crazy down here
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Speaker 2: in Panawa City Beach or in Miami beach, and many
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Speaker 2: beaches are doing this. So that's where we're at. That
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Speaker 2: spent a lot of time on spring break, and I
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Speaker 2: wasn't planning to, but I just wanted to mention that.
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Speaker 2: So I wanted to talk a little bit about where
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Speaker 2: we are. You know, things have continued to progress, and
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Speaker 2: as I talked about yesterday, I'm not I can't do
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Speaker 2: every day breaking news when it comes to the when
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Speaker 2: it comes to the developing some calling it a war.
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Speaker 2: No new wars, that's the new thing on the left
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Speaker 2: right now, No new wars. This is not what we're doing.
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Speaker 2: We're not having new wars. When it comes to what's
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Speaker 2: going on in Iran. We've heard now from many on
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Speaker 2: the right, including the Speaker of the House, and there
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Speaker 2: is a sentiment from the right at least that had
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Speaker 2: the US not made strikes when they did in Iran,
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Speaker 2: that Iran was preparing to do something and that this
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Speaker 2: was important it could have been mass casualties. One of
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Speaker 2: the things I didn't talk about yesterday. With all of this,
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Speaker 2: as we see Iran lashing out at countries nearby, we
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Speaker 2: have some countries saying they seem to be ready to
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Speaker 2: get into this with US. The US is certainly capable
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Speaker 2: of handling things on their own, but it certainly is
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Speaker 2: better when you've got some you know, support from some
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Speaker 2: of the countries in that region, in that area. And
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Speaker 2: I think the US would certainly has welcomed that, will
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Speaker 2: welcome that. But we I didn't really address this yesterday,
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Speaker 2: but you know, it's easy to sit back and say, well,
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Speaker 2: they're lobbing things, you know, at nearby countries, at places
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Speaker 2: that have not been on their side, and you know,
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Speaker 2: I've had some people ask, well, what are the chances
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Speaker 2: of something really bad happening here? And really, when it
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Speaker 2: comes to Iran, the thing that we have to worry about,
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Speaker 2: and this is why it should always be top of
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Speaker 2: mind with border security, is we have people in this
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Speaker 2: country that we don't know where all of them came from.
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Speaker 2: We don't know their country of origin, we don't know
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Speaker 2: their intentions. They were kind of allowed to just come
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Speaker 2: on in, and we don't know what their hopes are,
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Speaker 2: what their dreams are, what their ambitions are, what their
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Speaker 2: ties to possible organizations that might want to do is harm.
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Speaker 2: And if they're already here and they're already inside the
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Speaker 2: country for the sake of some political points and representation
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Speaker 2: and census basically forgery. I mean it's not from a
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Speaker 2: legal standpoint, but if you're bringing people in and letting
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Speaker 2: them come in, and you're piling them in a state
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Speaker 2: with sanctuary cities for the purposes of stacking your numbers
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Speaker 2: for a census, to get more representation and help out
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Speaker 2: with you know, the electoral college and all these things.
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Speaker 2: We don't know who a lot of these people are,
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Speaker 2: and we don't know what they want, and we've put
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Speaker 2: ourselves in a really bad position. We've put ourselves in
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Speaker 2: a really bad place when it comes to people that
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Speaker 2: are here. Now hopefully, hopefully we got a grasp on
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Speaker 2: who's here. But that's the thing we have to be
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Speaker 2: concerned about on the inside. Speaking of sanctuary cities and
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Speaker 2: places in one place in particular, jumping back up into
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Speaker 2: state of Minnesota, as the governor there and former candidate
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Speaker 2: for Vice President Tim Wallas is jumping into this no
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Speaker 2: new warris thing he jumped on social media and he's
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Speaker 2: basically saying that the Trump administration is trying to get
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Speaker 2: the US into a new war. And there's been a
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Speaker 2: lot of people, a lot of people that have been
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Speaker 2: firing back, questioning when it comes to this comment and
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Speaker 2: where it's coming from. Representative Randy Fine from Florida, the Republican,
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Speaker 2: a big pro Israel voice in Congress, asking Tim Walls
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Speaker 2: on x where he posted the no new wars, will
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Speaker 2: this affect your Somali kickbacks? Also, a conservative videographer Cam
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Speaker 2: Higbee says, didn't two Walls, didn't you just try to
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Speaker 2: start a war with Trump a month ago? Others pointing
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Speaker 2: out things like this no King stuff, another saying just
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Speaker 2: be thankful. This is changing the headlines from Somali fraud Minnesota,
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Speaker 2: and I think that's a big part of what the
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Speaker 2: governor there has been trying to do for the past
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Speaker 2: couple of months. We had a bad situation for him,
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Speaker 2: a bad look for him, and then you go to
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Speaker 2: look for things to talk about, other distractions that we
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Speaker 2: can focus on. And that's the intention, that's the hope, certainly.
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Speaker 2: And I talked a little bit about this yesterday. I
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Speaker 2: addressed John Fetterman, and Fetterman has broken with Democrats on
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Speaker 2: all of this with Iran and is supporting the decision
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Speaker 2: to act. Fetterman said, I might be a Democrat, but
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Speaker 2: in this specific case, the President is absolutely correct to
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Speaker 2: do these kinds of actions. It's so dispoin like, it's
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Speaker 2: refreshing when we go, okay, there is still one person
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Speaker 2: who is over there at least considering other things on
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Speaker 2: that side of the aisle, but we are. It's sad
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Speaker 2: that there's not more. It's sad that we're we have
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Speaker 2: so many that are just absolutely in line doing what's
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Speaker 2: expected of them on that side of the isle all times,
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Speaker 2: and it's nice when we have someone who steps in
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Speaker 2: and says, look, this is something that needed to be done,
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Speaker 2: this is something that was necessary, and that's refreshing. I
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Speaker 2: would hope we can get more people on both sides
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Speaker 2: of the aisle at least considering breaking from the group.
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Speaker 2: I think a lot more Republicans do it. We see
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Speaker 2: it all the time. We see very frustrated members of
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Speaker 2: the Republican Party that get annoyed with certain members of
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Speaker 2: the things that you would think would be in place. Massachusetts,
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Speaker 2: Washington State, Colorado, Utah or the top five for the fittest.
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Speaker 2: Now for us here in the southeast on this list
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Speaker 2: for the least fit states one in particular, what's right here.
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Speaker 2: A lot of you listening probably live there. Louisiana number
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Speaker 2: one on the list, Mississippi, West Virginia and that's the
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Speaker 2: top three. Nevada is five. Alabama is actually number four
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Speaker 2: on the list. So not having access to all of
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Speaker 2: those things that this index says makes it so very fit,
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Speaker 2: so interesting. I mean, I would think Alabama would have
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Speaker 2: some of these things, but I don't know about the
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Speaker 2: overall number of gyms and things like that available. Georgia
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Speaker 2: is in the bottom half of the list, not placing well,
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Speaker 2: but Georgia at six point six if you were wondering,
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Speaker 2: Alabama's at four point nine to nine. And just as
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Speaker 2: a reminder, Vermont was eight point ninety seven on the
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Speaker 2: scale out of ten. North Carolina hovering right around in
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Speaker 2: the middle there at seven point three in South Carolina
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Speaker 2: right around there with them six point nine two. Another
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Speaker 2: state I thought maybe would have placed higher might have
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Speaker 2: actually been Hawaii, and that one's at six point nine seven.
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Speaker 2: California just missed out on that top in the top
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Speaker 2: I guess they were at seven eight point eight there.
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Speaker 2: So interesting. And of course food is certainly part of it,
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Speaker 2: and the ability to healthy not just food, but healthy
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Speaker 2: food and those sorts of things. And then finally, college students,
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Speaker 2: of course tend to be the ones we think of
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Speaker 2: with spring break. We talked about that earlier, but travel
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Speaker 2: industry insiders have seen a trend with more adults trying
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Speaker 2: to get away during spring break times, not necessarily partying
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Speaker 2: and you know, going to kind of you know, low
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Speaker 2: expense hotels and expensive hotels. Instead, people are making upscale
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Speaker 2: plans and these are like adults making those upscale plans
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Speaker 2: and basically saying, hey, getting good deals because they make
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Speaker 2: early reservations and it's different than you know, the college
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Speaker 2: kids that kind of do it at the last minute.
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Speaker 2: Some spring break trips adults are enjoying include long weekends
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Speaker 2: of wine tasting, coastal area getaways, trying to get away
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Speaker 2: from college hot spots, visiting spas, and wellness retreats and
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Speaker 2: those kinds of things, kind of neat stuff. All right,
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Speaker 2: that'll do it for this Tuesday edition of the show.
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