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Fat Shaming or Making Sure Everyone Is Ready? · 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: Wednesday morning, first day of October. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me starting your day with me. Didn't properly acknowledge
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Speaker 2: it was National Coffee Day back on Monday, and I
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Speaker 2: feel like for those of you who start your day
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Speaker 2: with me over a cup of coffee. And I've heard
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Speaker 2: from several of you over the years that that's what
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Speaker 2: you do, that you did it on the radio, you
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Speaker 2: do it here. I appreciate that, and I like to
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Speaker 2: think when I finish up the show and I have
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Speaker 2: my cup of coffee, if I wait until after the show,
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Speaker 2: sometimes it's before, sometimes I need that jolt beforehand, but
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Speaker 2: sometimes it's after. I guess technically every cup of coffee
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Speaker 2: is either before or after the show. I mean the
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Speaker 2: one from yesterday or the one for later today. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: I'm getting to the real getting into a real dad
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Speaker 2: deep philosophical conversation there. But my point is I like
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Speaker 2: to imagine when I have them after the show, I'm
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Speaker 2: having that cup of coffee with you, maybe while you're listening.
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Speaker 2: So I appreciate you for doing that. And yeah, I
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Speaker 2: like hearing from you guys, like hearing that you have
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Speaker 2: in coffee with me. That's fun. Let's talk a little
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Speaker 2: bit more as we get a little bit more information
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Speaker 2: about Thomas Jacob Sandford, the forty year old shooter out
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Speaker 2: of Burton, Michigan who attacked the LDS church over the
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Speaker 2: weekend Grand Blank Township, Michigan. And it's a horrific just
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Speaker 2: the whole thing is so horrible. And of course, continue
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Speaker 2: to pray for the families affected in this Mormon church.
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Speaker 2: The people there need our prayers, and I just I
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Speaker 2: can't even imagine what they're dealing with this situation. I
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Speaker 2: want to just quickly just a little bit more of
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Speaker 2: the picture is starting to become a little bit more clear.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that we really have all the answers,
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Speaker 2: and I don't know that wherever going to get answers.
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Speaker 2: But his father had a talk with actually some press,
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Speaker 2: Detroit Free Press, and he calls it a nightmare folks
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Speaker 2: in his neighborhood remembering him basically saying that he did
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Speaker 2: not at some point in his life back in twenty
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Speaker 2: ten at least, so that's what fifteen years ago, he
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Speaker 2: actually dated a Mormon woman considered joining the Mormon Church,
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Speaker 2: and like it was planning to do that for this
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Speaker 2: woman that he was dating. This information came from one
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Speaker 2: of the past acquaintances, woman named Sarah Winter, who was
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Speaker 2: his landlady in Utah, and she said that I guess
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Speaker 2: the relationship ended, but that the woman's family, I guess
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Speaker 2: was excited about him possibly joining the church so they
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Speaker 2: could be together. And then the I guess Sandford one
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Speaker 2: day just left while he was there living in whatever
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Speaker 2: place that she was his landlady, land person, What do
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Speaker 2: we say now, I think we're back to just being
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Speaker 2: able to say landlady. So I think that's okay. Now
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Speaker 2: it's twenty twenty five, we're in that phase of we're
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Speaker 2: in that phase of the woke pandemic art we were
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Speaker 2: on the other side of it, So yeah, it's we
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Speaker 2: don't want to presume anything. I think some people are
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Speaker 2: starting to kind of say that maybe this could be
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Speaker 2: a reason for him not liking the Mormon Church, not
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Speaker 2: liking the LDS community, if there was some sort of
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Speaker 2: a breakup, if there was something that took place there,
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Speaker 2: maybe he wasn't comfortable, like maybe this was one of
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Speaker 2: those things. And I hate just putting but to try
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Speaker 2: to get some sort of an answer over this. And
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Speaker 2: if this is someone who obviously was a former military
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Speaker 2: probably dealing with some issues, some mental issues on top
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Speaker 2: of that, and then maybe you throw in this as
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Speaker 2: a possibility of something that he was dealing with. Maybe
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Speaker 2: with this relationship, maybe he wasn't comfortable with joining the
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Speaker 2: church when he started to get down to the actual
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Speaker 2: process of doing it, and that maybe the relationship ended
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Speaker 2: over this, and that could be the reason he's been
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Speaker 2: carrying a fifteen year grudge. And obviously if there is
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Speaker 2: something in his mental state that or was in his
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Speaker 2: mental state, that would have been something that may have
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Speaker 2: pushed him over a certain point. But again this is
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Speaker 2: me speculating. This is I mean, there's a little bit
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Speaker 2: of info here, and that's what we know. I did
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Speaker 2: find it interesting, as we mentioned this, I think yesterday
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Speaker 2: that someone found I guess a sign hanging on a
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Speaker 2: fence in his property that showed that he supported Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump for president, and that was became a big like whoa, look,
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Speaker 2: a Republican attacked a church, and the issue of right
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Speaker 2: and left attacking churches. This hasn't been about right and left.
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Speaker 2: It's been about the fact that we've had some people
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Speaker 2: on the left that seemed to be agitated and basically
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Speaker 2: being pushed in a certain direction as people and groups
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Speaker 2: are being called fascist and Christian nationalists trying to throw
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Speaker 2: these terms out there. I mean, what are we complaining
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Speaker 2: about people that love the country and love Jesus. That's
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Speaker 2: the thing that we're hearing a lot from the left
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Speaker 2: that those are bad people, and I think that's the reason.
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Speaker 2: And when it comes to the number of people out
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Speaker 2: of the train community that have attacked churches or schools
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Speaker 2: or things with manifestos and these kinds of things, that's
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Speaker 2: where that concern came from. Bottom line here is people died,
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Speaker 2: and anytime someone dies, it's horrific. No one on the
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Speaker 2: right is celebrating these people dying. No one on the
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Speaker 2: right went online and celebrated it. No one put their
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Speaker 2: jobs and their careers at stake in order to celebrate it.
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Speaker 2: Everyone on the right is horrified. And this is not
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Speaker 2: something that has been pushed by someone on the right
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Speaker 2: to go after LDS or go after anyone in a church.
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Speaker 2: You're not hearing that. That's not part of it. Politicians
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Speaker 2: aren't standing up and still doing it. We've had shootings
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Speaker 2: at ICE facilities and all these confrontations at and we
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Speaker 2: still have politicians calling them gestapo. We still have politicians
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Speaker 2: insinuating that this is some sort of fascist regime that's
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Speaker 2: taking place, and it's horrible. But what I wanted to
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Speaker 2: mention about this Trump sign is this is the new strategy. Okay,
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Speaker 2: because someone might say, well, they went by his house
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Speaker 2: and or they looked on his truck and they were
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Speaker 2: trying to see if maybe he had a Trump bumper
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Speaker 2: stick or whatever in his front yard. Apparently on a fence,
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Speaker 2: he had a sign up for Trump that someone found,
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Speaker 2: I guess on Google Images. So this is now the strategy.
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Speaker 2: You go back and you start looking going through Google images.
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Speaker 2: No indication of whether or not this guy put the
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Speaker 2: sign up, if someone put it in his yard, someone
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Speaker 2: said hey, can we put this sign up? Yeah, sure,
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Speaker 2: it's fine. There's no indication of any of that. This
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Speaker 2: is just a presumed thing that's happened. Where you go, well,
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Speaker 2: he had a Trump sign up. It's very possible the
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Speaker 2: guy could have been a Trump supporter, but that has
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Speaker 2: nothing to do with what took place. So we're just
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Speaker 2: getting a little bit more in front. Again, a lot
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Speaker 2: of the speculation I don't like to get into that,
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Speaker 2: but when you start hearing specifics of some of these details,
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Speaker 2: it starts to become this whole Well, maybe this is
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Speaker 2: kind of how things took place. The big story from yesterday,
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Speaker 2: of course, was the fact that our Secretary of War,
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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth, spoke and laid out some new personnel standards
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Speaker 2: at Quantico, speaking to the folks in the military. This
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Speaker 2: at you know, the Quantico Marine Core Base in Virginia,
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Speaker 2: and he laid out some things. Again, we're in this
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Speaker 2: phase of the woke pandemic, but he says basically, look,
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Speaker 2: we are in a position where our military needs to
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Speaker 2: be preparing for war and preparing to win. This isn't
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Speaker 2: an accusation that we're ready to go to war, this
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Speaker 2: is about to happen. None of those things. This is
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Speaker 2: someone who is laying out Listen to me, we need
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Speaker 2: to be ready in case. And the way that you
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Speaker 2: are ready in case, you have to be fit, you
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Speaker 2: have to be healthy, you have to be trained, you
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Speaker 2: have to be zeroed in, and you have to be
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Speaker 2: ready to go. He says. If the words I'm speaking
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Speaker 2: today are making your heart sync, then you should be honorable.
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Speaker 2: I'll do the honorable thing and resign. We would thank
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Speaker 2: you for your service, but I suspect the overwhelming majority
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Speaker 2: of you feel the opposite. These words make your heart full.
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Speaker 2: And he says that we had become the woke Department.
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Speaker 2: But not anymore. No more identity months, dei offices, dudes
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Speaker 2: in dresses, no more climate change worship, no more division
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Speaker 2: distraction or gender delusions, no more debris. We are done
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Speaker 2: with that. If women can make it excellent, If not,
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Speaker 2: it is what it is. Weak. Men don't qualify either.
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Speaker 2: We're not playing games. Of course, this has caused a
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Speaker 2: number of people's, you know, reaction to this. They're losing
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Speaker 2: their minds over it. And I'm sure that there have
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Speaker 2: been I had him watch not watching those talk shows,
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Speaker 2: but I'm sure a number of folks in those talk
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Speaker 2: shows have had a lot to say about his comments.
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Speaker 2: But he's focusing very much on the things that are important.
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Speaker 2: He says, standards must be uniform, gender neutral, and high.
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Speaker 2: If not, they're just suggestions and suggestions get our sons
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Speaker 2: and daughters killed. He had a version of the JFK quote.
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Speaker 2: I don't have it in front of it me, but
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Speaker 2: he basically said, you know, ask not what I can
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Speaker 2: do for my country, but ask what I can do
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Speaker 2: if it were my child. Serving some version of that,
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Speaker 2: and he was basically saying, we need to look at
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Speaker 2: soldiers if there are offspring, there are children. I think
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Speaker 2: I butchered his quote, but you get the idea. He says,
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Speaker 2: Also to our enemies FAFO, using the acronym for f
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Speaker 2: around and find out. So he says, if necessary, our
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Speaker 2: troops can translate that for you perfectly. He said, today
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Speaker 2: is another liberation day, the liberation of America's warriors in name, indeed,
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Speaker 2: and in authorities. You kill people, you break things for
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Speaker 2: a living. You are not politically correct, and you don't
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Speaker 2: necessarily belong always in polite society. You are warriors. And
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Speaker 2: then he closed out the whole thing with a prayer. Yes,
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Speaker 2: people are absolutely losing their minds over this speech today,
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Speaker 2: and I tell you it's fun to watch. It was interesting.
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Speaker 2: It was fun to watch, fun thinking about folks who's
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Speaker 2: having meltdowns at the very thought of it. And the
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Speaker 2: women on the view were some of the ones who
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Speaker 2: absolutely freaked out about it. He says, whise why joy
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Speaker 2: Baheart's saying, why is he obsessed with fat and fitness?
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Speaker 2: He doesn't want soldiers to be killed. This was I
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Speaker 2: guess specifically about his comments. It's completely acceptable to see
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Speaker 2: fat generals and admirals and the wholes of the Pentagon
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Speaker 2: leading commands around the world. It's a bad look. The
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Speaker 2: Alissa Farra Griffin said, all of these people from different
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Speaker 2: backgrounds come together and fight with the American values. So
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Speaker 2: I don't understand why we have to denigrate the military
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Speaker 2: and try to talk about doing better. I would also
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Speaker 2: like to mention we have a recruiting crisis, but in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five finally the military
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Speaker 2: met recruiting goals, which is huge. Trying to tie us
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Speaker 2: back to twenty twenty four. The twenty twenty five is
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Speaker 2: when the recruiting goals started to get met. They were
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Speaker 2: still struggling in twenty twenty four. They probably started to improve,
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Speaker 2: goals weren't met then. So she's trying to lump this
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Speaker 2: back and give credit to the Biden administration. And then
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Speaker 2: she said, I did not like Pete Hegseth, who did
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Speaker 2: serve this country, but chose to detegrate the service of
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Speaker 2: others and Beharst says and fat shaming. It's not about
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Speaker 2: fat shaming. That's not really the point. And Sonny Austin said,
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Speaker 2: I'm really befuddled with why he did that. The optics
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Speaker 2: were terrible. She said, it also didn't make a lot
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Speaker 2: of sense to me. He was saying that he was
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Speaker 2: going through tough and physical standards and review the anti
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Speaker 2: hazing policy by sort of implementing a hazing policy, and
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Speaker 2: then also he said he was going to return to
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Speaker 2: the highest male standard for combat positions because the troops
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Speaker 2: were fat. I just don't understand how he was supposed
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Speaker 2: to be an uplifting message for our military. So look,
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Speaker 2: when you heg Seth knows as someone who served, there
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Speaker 2: is a certain amount of pride that goes into being ready.
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Speaker 2: I think that's what this is all about. I don't
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Speaker 2: think and I didn't serve. Look, my dad was in
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Speaker 2: the reserves. My dad had a short stint in I've
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Speaker 2: got friends that serve. I can just tell you that
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Speaker 2: I know people some that would disagree with this, but
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Speaker 2: largely because they don't like the current administration. But I
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Speaker 2: know many people who've served who would just tell you
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Speaker 2: point blank, look, you go into this with pride. You
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Speaker 2: want to be ready. You want to know that everybody
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Speaker 2: has each other's back, and everybody's capable of having each
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Speaker 2: other's back. And the reality is there's been a lot
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Speaker 2: of sentiment over the last four years, previous four years
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Speaker 2: of that administration of people that just didn't have the
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Speaker 2: confidence that everybody had their back. Is that true for
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Speaker 2: everyone across the board? Certainly not. But there were a
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Speaker 2: lot of people who just thought, look, there are people
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Speaker 2: joining so that they can immediately go in and ask
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Speaker 2: for transgender surgeries and things. There were some questions about
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Speaker 2: what the motivations were for joining in all of these things.
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Speaker 2: So to have a clear vision and a clear message
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Speaker 2: for what the military is, what the expectation is, what
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Speaker 2: it's going to be. I don't think you're going to
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Speaker 2: have a problem finding people that are saying I want
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Speaker 2: to be part of this, if it's going to be
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Speaker 2: some I think the reason for the numbers going down
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Speaker 2: is because it had kind of become a joke. Don't
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Speaker 2: you think that has some motivation to it? If the
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Speaker 2: standards aren't high, if what you have to do to
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Speaker 2: stay in there and to serve and to be ready
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Speaker 2: for combat. If the possibility that you were going to
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Speaker 2: go into a combat situation with someone on both sides
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Speaker 2: of you that weren't capable of making sure that you
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Speaker 2: were ready or that they were able to be ready
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Speaker 2: to take care of you, but that maybe you yourself
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Speaker 2: weren't ready, think about those terms. I'd like to know
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Speaker 2: I'm ready. If I stepped out on an NFL field
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Speaker 2: and thought I'm going to play running back, I would
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Speaker 2: get crushed. I wouldn't be ready for that. I'd like
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Speaker 2: to think that someone would come along and say, you
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Speaker 2: need to be you know, you need to be thirty
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Speaker 2: years younger. You need to be in shape, you need
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Speaker 2: to have muscle. There's things that we expect from you
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Speaker 2: before you're going to let you step on this field.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna sign twenty waivers because you're just gonna get
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Speaker 2: absolutely folded up. So if you're in the military and
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Speaker 2: you yourself maybe aren't ready to go, and you're not
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Speaker 2: going in there with confidence, and then the people on
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Speaker 2: either side of you aren't, you know, you're gonna get
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Speaker 2: folded up. That's my thoughts on it, and for these
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Speaker 2: people to be so upset and they're focusing in on
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Speaker 2: it's fat shaming. It's not fat shaming. It's taking a
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Speaker 2: look at where things have been over the past five
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Speaker 2: years and saying this is now where we're going with this.
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Speaker 2: We want to be prepared, we want to be ready,
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Speaker 2: and we want you to know that you're ready and
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Speaker 2: the largest great whites ever recorded in the Atlantic. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: be careful in that area. Need a bigger boat all
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Speaker 2: that fun stuff. Over the weekend, over fifty robotics teams, companies,
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Speaker 2: and universities got together in Boston for the eighth annual
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Speaker 2: Robo Boston Robot Block Party. The event, described as the
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Speaker 2: largest celebration of robotics, was open to the public, allowing
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Speaker 2: everyone to see cutting edge tech, and even featured a
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Speaker 2: robot sidewalk parade. That's pretty cool. A new study from
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Speaker 2: Indeed analyzed nearly three thousand job skills and found that
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Speaker 2: AI can already perform nearly half of them. Not surprisingly,
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Speaker 2: jobs like software development, data and analytics, as well as accounting,
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Speaker 2: top the list of roles most likely to be transformed.
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Speaker 2: On the other hand, jobs that require a human touch, childcare,
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Speaker 2: nursing construction are the least likely to be automated anytime soon.
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Speaker 2: One final conclusion from the study suggesting things are going
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Speaker 2: to change more before they settle down because AI continues
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Speaker 2: to get smarter, which will lead to more potential for
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Speaker 2: automation down the line. So there you go. Over the
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Speaker 2: past decade or so, there's been a big push to
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Speaker 2: legalize marijuana. One of the arguments has been that it
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Speaker 2: would generate more tax revenue. Lawmakers in Michigan are following
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Speaker 2: through on that promise as they approved a marijuana tax
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Speaker 2: hike to fund Michigan road construction. The bill calls for
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Speaker 2: a twenty four percent tax increase on wholesale marijuana that
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Speaker 2: will supposedly raise four hundred and twenty million dollars a year.
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Speaker 2: Did they I would think that's intentional. You don't accidentally
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Speaker 2: work a four twenty in there, do you? I mean,
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Speaker 2: that can't be an accident. How about this? This is
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Speaker 2: what I would like in Georgia and where you know,
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Speaker 2: we're in that point where I guess you know, they're
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Speaker 2: not pushing, not necessarily saying hey, let's go all out
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Speaker 2: for legalizing, but some changes have certainly taken place. People
23:51
Speaker 2: seem really proud of their marijuana. They seem to be
23:54
Speaker 2: proud of it. It just seems to be people smoking it.
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Speaker 2: You know, they used to smoke it in the backyard.
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Speaker 2: Now it's the front yard, and it's just an observ h.
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Speaker 2: And then the other thing is, you know when you're
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Speaker 2: actively shopping in a store and you're you're going there's
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Speaker 2: one particular store that there's many locations of around town,
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Speaker 2: and it seems like almost every employee working in the
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Speaker 2: store smells like weed. Uh, maybe that could be something
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Speaker 2: that could be taxed. It would just be like a
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Speaker 2: you know, like it's like a no it's a noise ordinance,
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Speaker 2: but it's a nose ordinance where if you smell it,
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Speaker 2: and uh, I don't know, I don't. I don't understand.
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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't get the fact that we have
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Speaker 2: places where you can smell like that and be at work.
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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't understand that. And it's a large chain.
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Speaker 2: It's not exactly just a tiny little mom and pop store.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's not one of those places where
24:47
Speaker 2: you buy the the gummies or the you know, I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's a big chain. I would think just maybe you
24:55
Speaker 2: don't want your employees smelling like that. That could be
24:58
Speaker 2: something that they could tax in a state that's not
25:02
Speaker 2: taxing it yet. Fingernail clippings supposed to end up in
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Speaker 2: the trash, but sometimes deeply embedded in the carpet. They're
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Speaker 2: not supposed to end up for sale on the internet.
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Speaker 2: But then again, this is a weird world that we're in.
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Speaker 2: We say that a lot people in China are getting
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Speaker 2: big bucks for their fingernail clippings, which are then being
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Speaker 2: used in traditional Chinese medicines to treat things like stomach issues,
25:24
Speaker 2: even tonsilitis. Companies that produce these remedies are buying clippings
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Speaker 2: from schools and villages, then washing, drying, and grinding them
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Speaker 2: into powder for medicinal products. People are getting about twenty
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Speaker 2: one dollars per kilogram for the clippings. By the way,
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Speaker 2: if you're thinking about selling yours, they're only buying fingernail clippings,
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Speaker 2: not toenail clippings. So yeah, twenty one dollars per kilo
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Speaker 2: sounds disgusting. Though I don't know like these medicines making
25:53
Speaker 2: their way back to the States. Is there a chance
25:57
Speaker 2: that we're taking the fingernail clipping medicines. That just sounds
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Speaker 2: pretty gross to me. That'll do it for this Wednesday
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