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Imagine Senators Getting Grilled Like That · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 2: Thursday morning, thirtieth day of January. I'm West thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. Inching our way towards the weekend, inching our
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Speaker 2: way a little closer to February. How's a month gone by?
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Speaker 2: Almost already? I mean, it's practically February and that's the
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Speaker 2: short month, so it'll be March before we know it.
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Speaker 2: And then suddenly we're wondering how a quarter of the
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Speaker 2: year's gone when March ends. That's just the way time happens,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. A couple things I want to want to
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Speaker 2: get into this morning, and this was we've all, at
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Speaker 2: least to some degree, I realize this happens during the day.
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Speaker 2: Not everybody has an opportunity to follow it. I have
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Speaker 2: to because of what I do. It's part of this UH,
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Speaker 2: this career path that I've chosen. But following the UH
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Speaker 2: confirmation hearings, as the various nominees made by President Trump
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Speaker 2: to head up different cabinet positions, and they're just they're
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Speaker 2: they're comical. Sadly, they're they're not in a funny way.
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Speaker 2: I guess it's that that sad sort of This is
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Speaker 2: so predictable. This is so sad and comically sad because
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Speaker 2: of the predictability, because of what we knew we were
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Speaker 2: going to be witnessing. Each of them has their own challenges.
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Speaker 2: We knew Pete Hegseth would be a bit rocky and ugly.
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Speaker 2: We knew we knew that if Matt Gates had gotten through,
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Speaker 2: that would have been bad. We knew that was going
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Speaker 2: to be ugly. We knew that RFK and Tulci, Gabbard
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Speaker 2: and others would get really nasty Patel. We knew some
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Speaker 2: of these nominees it was going to be just spiteful
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Speaker 2: and nasty. Especially you know when you got somebody who
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Speaker 2: was a Democrat now they're either an independent or still
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Speaker 2: sort of a Democrat, but trying to work with a
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Speaker 2: Republican president. How dare you that came up? I think
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Speaker 2: Johnson yesterday was the one who brought it up, just
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Speaker 2: as they were talking about how this could have been
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Speaker 2: something special, having this Democrat who would typically be against
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Speaker 2: most things that Republicans are four, having an opportunity to
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Speaker 2: hold this position in the cabinet and I think the
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Speaker 2: same sort of thing with Tulsa Gabbard. There's that novelty there.
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Speaker 2: But of course people get their feelings hurt when you
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Speaker 2: turn away from them, when you don't stand in line.
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Speaker 2: One of those things that we've talked about here many
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Speaker 2: times Democrats tend to do that pretty well. There has
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Speaker 2: been a number of fractures in the wall in the
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Speaker 2: last year or so, especially in the last couple of months.
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Speaker 2: It's really not quite what it used to be when
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Speaker 2: it comes to everybody being asked to, you know, follow
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Speaker 2: their march in orders, and it's certainly Gabbered and RFK
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Speaker 2: are two of the ones that you know they feel like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you helped him win, you helped him across the finish line.
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Speaker 2: And ultimately they did that because they didn't feel at
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Speaker 2: home where they were trying to be heard, because again,
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Speaker 2: how dare you stand up to some of the things
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Speaker 2: that we tell you you're supposed to say? These are
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Speaker 2: your talking points? We talked about Kareem John Pierre yesterday
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Speaker 2: and how you know she was quick to go with
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Speaker 2: the like, here's your scripted talking points, go to your binder,
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Speaker 2: go to whatever you need. During those White House Press gatherings,
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Speaker 2: and she wasn't afraid to do that. And I understand
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Speaker 2: to a point. You think about if you follow any
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Speaker 2: of the Marvel movies, right, you follow the Marvel movies.
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Speaker 2: You know Tom Holland who plays Spider Man. When he
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Speaker 2: would do press for any of the Marvel movies, he
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Speaker 2: would often accidentally say things that he's contractually not allowed
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Speaker 2: to say, and he would leak things about movies titles
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Speaker 2: and characters, and so it became a running joke for him.
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Speaker 2: When he would do press events, he had to be
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Speaker 2: with someone else. Their job was to try to help
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Speaker 2: keep him from, you know, let him say what he's
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Speaker 2: not supposed to say, because there's a danger in that
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Speaker 2: if you're trying to keep secrets for these movies. Now
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Speaker 2: imagine that it's, you know, one of the two major
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Speaker 2: parties in the country, and you're trying to keep the
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Speaker 2: ship on course. You're trying to say, this is the
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Speaker 2: game that we play. We call everybody a Nazi, even
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Speaker 2: when we know that they're not, even when we know
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Speaker 2: they're not throwing out the sighile salute, but we're going
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Speaker 2: to accuse him of it over and over and over
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Speaker 2: again and say things like, of course, that's what Elon
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Speaker 2: Musk was doing. Of Course, because certain percentage of the
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Speaker 2: country brains are malleable, you can just say it enough
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Speaker 2: and they'll go, oh, of course, that's what he was doing.
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Speaker 2: Ard Tim Wall say it. Rachel Medow, I'm one of
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Speaker 2: the eight people that watched and I heard him say it.
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Speaker 2: I caught a snippet of it. Of course, that's what
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Speaker 2: he was doing. And the only reason I was even
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Speaker 2: listening to any snippet of it was just hearing his
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Speaker 2: I guess his first is that even a major interview,
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Speaker 2: his first interview since losing, and talking about fatigue within
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Speaker 2: the party and all those sorts of things. So we
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Speaker 2: knew certain ones were going to be tough. We knew
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Speaker 2: RFK was probably going to be the ugliest of the group.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it was going to be him or Tulsey.
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Speaker 2: Maybe heg seth. RFK was pretty bad. RFK has the
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Speaker 2: issue with his voice that means it's very hard for
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Speaker 2: him to answer questions quickly. I think that a little
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Speaker 2: bit works to his advantage. When you're being grilled by
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Speaker 2: these members of this committee that are asking you these
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Speaker 2: questions in a short amount of time, they looked like
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Speaker 2: bullies whenever they tried to rush him through an answer.
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Speaker 2: They don't. Let's be honest. One side wants to honor
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Speaker 2: the wishes of President Trump. The other side wants to
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Speaker 2: stand up to everything to lampoon it. As RFK said
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Speaker 2: it yesterday. So anything that he does, they want a
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Speaker 2: lampoon it. So that's all it was. It was for
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Speaker 2: the most part, Republicans, you know, saying hey, you know,
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Speaker 2: let me ask you a couple of questions about this.
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Speaker 2: Let me talk about the references that we checked, let
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Speaker 2: me talk about the positive things that people have said
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Speaker 2: about you. And Democrats they were just screaming at him,
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Speaker 2: raising their voice right up on the microphone, right and
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Speaker 2: you hear the come on, come on, and I guess
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Speaker 2: my question for this. Let me let me also say
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Speaker 2: this before I get to my question. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if he should be I don't know if he should
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Speaker 2: be confirmed. I really don't. I've told you that there
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Speaker 2: are a number of people I don't know. In many cases,
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Speaker 2: if with any president, there might be people that I say, hey,
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Speaker 2: I like them, I think they'd be good. I think
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Speaker 2: Marco Rubio was an easy pick for Secretary of State,
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Speaker 2: I think he was an easy pick. I like Rubio.
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Speaker 2: I know there's some people who say, no, he's too
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Speaker 2: rhino e, he's too left of right of center to
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Speaker 2: be you know, one of our guys. I think Rubio
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Speaker 2: great pick for secretary of State. I think it's setting
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Speaker 2: Rubio up for eventually a run for president in the future.
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Speaker 2: I think that paves the way for that. And I
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Speaker 2: know the more staunch conservatives would say no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: not that, But I think Rubio could be could be
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Speaker 2: that guy. He could, I think, make a run for
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Speaker 2: president down the line at some point after being Secretary
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Speaker 2: of State for a while. I think. But if you
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Speaker 2: asked me, do you know he was the best possible pick.
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Speaker 2: He felt like a safe pick, and obviously he was
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Speaker 2: confirmed unanimously, so it wasn't really a challenge there. First
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Speaker 2: one confirmed, first one sworn it, first one at work,
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Speaker 2: already doing some doing some work. Uh. But uh, you
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Speaker 2: know I said this about Hegseth. I don't know. I
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Speaker 2: can't tell you for certain he should should be the
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Speaker 2: uh in charge of defense, but I think that Trump
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Speaker 2: thinks that he can. I don't dislike Pete Hegseth. I
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Speaker 2: can't tell you that I would have voted against him,
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Speaker 2: because I wouldn't have. I would have I would have
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Speaker 2: voted to confirm him, especially based on everything that we knew.
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Speaker 2: But I don't fully know all of their qualifications, and
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Speaker 2: I think as Americans, we we kid ourselves that we
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Speaker 2: really know some of these things that we know deep down,
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Speaker 2: this is the best person for this job. I can
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Speaker 2: tell you this. I didn't think Matt Gates was the
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Speaker 2: best person for the job. And I still don't really
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Speaker 2: understand what all that was about. But it happened, it
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Speaker 2: was done, and they managed to, you know, give him
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Speaker 2: an opportunity to move on as he was getting ready
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Speaker 2: to have all of his business exposed, and then they
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Speaker 2: exposed it anyway, which typically they don't do in those
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Speaker 2: situations once you step down from the position. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: I didn't think he was the best pick, right. But again,
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Speaker 2: I don't know of the there are several people that are,
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Speaker 2: you know, up for positions that I've gotten to know
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Speaker 2: just through interviews over the years. Happy for Pam Bondy
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Speaker 2: and the progress that she's made through this process. I'm
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Speaker 2: happy for some of the other some of the people
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Speaker 2: were just appointed. Waltz was one that someone that I've
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Speaker 2: interviewed seems like, seems like a nice guy. I'm happy
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Speaker 2: for Kelly Leffler's progress. I I can't tell you RFK
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Speaker 2: is the right person. I can tell you that he's
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Speaker 2: asking the questions that I think should be asked. Sometimes.
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Speaker 2: I think the questions that were being asked of him
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Speaker 2: yesterday were the right questions to some degree. Now some
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Speaker 2: you're gonna get your Elizabeth Warrens that are going to
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Speaker 2: scream at him and start accusing him of you know,
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Speaker 2: your lawsuits or how you're making all your money and
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Speaker 2: you just want to and will you agree to not
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Speaker 2: file any lawsuits for four years after you have the job,
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Speaker 2: and all these sorts of things. Hyper focused on getting
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Speaker 2: that one message out. That's what that's all she wanted.
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Speaker 2: That's typically what she does, the same thing that she
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Speaker 2: tried to do on hegset as a general. You said
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Speaker 2: General shouldn't do this. Would you agree that you would
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Speaker 2: do this? And he's like, I'm not. In general. One
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Speaker 2: of the great moments of her and she's had many
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Speaker 2: moments of looking really stupid. So I don't know, I
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Speaker 2: don't know if he you know, I don't really have
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Speaker 2: enough information to tell you that, yes, he should be,
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Speaker 2: other than to say that that's who Trump picked. That
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Speaker 2: was part of the promise to America. That was part
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Speaker 2: of the promise, is that this will be the guy
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Speaker 2: that will dig into some of these things and we're
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Speaker 2: going to try to find out what's causing some of
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Speaker 2: our problems, because typically we just don't even look at
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Speaker 2: those things. We're focused on other things. We're not looking
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Speaker 2: at health, we're not looking at diet, we're not looking
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Speaker 2: at additives and foods the way that we should be.
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Speaker 2: We're not. We're rushing and forcing and mandating vaccines in
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Speaker 2: situations where you know, I personally believe some vaccines should
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Speaker 2: be mandated. I think that some should not, and I
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Speaker 2: think that we should be very carefu full about when
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Speaker 2: we decide that we're going to force one or not force.
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Speaker 2: We never forced the flu one. The flu vaccine. I
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Speaker 2: can't say never, not in my lifetime. I don't know
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Speaker 2: the full history on the flu vaccine, but I can
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Speaker 2: tell you, to my knowledge, in my lifetime, it's never
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Speaker 2: been mandated. So COVID became a mandated and people lost
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Speaker 2: their jobs and livelihoods, and you to make a note
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Speaker 2: to look into the history of the flu vaccine. But
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Speaker 2: my question that I'm getting to eventually is watching these
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Speaker 2: senators grill some of these nominees, and I mean screaming
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Speaker 2: at them, shouting at them, folks standing up in the
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Speaker 2: back and yelling. And you got protesters that popped up
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Speaker 2: during rfks and I think he I think heg Seth
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Speaker 2: also had some. But my question is could any of
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Speaker 2: these senators really stand up to this kind of grilling
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Speaker 2: themselves being asked questions about their investments and some of
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Speaker 2: the things that they've managed to get away with, the
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Speaker 2: financial like the money that they've made. It's it's not
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Speaker 2: a coincidence that there are apps and websites dedicated to
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Speaker 2: here's what the following members of Congress are investing their
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Speaker 2: money in right now, making millions so that you can
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Speaker 2: get in on this boat as well. That's a thing.
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Speaker 2: It's not a coincidence. Somebody didn't just do that. They're
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Speaker 2: looking at, Hey, this person's been doing this for forty years.
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Speaker 2: They were worth about eighty grand when they started, and
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Speaker 2: now they're worth, you know, one hundred million dollars. So
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Speaker 2: they're doing something right. They're doing something. Could they stand
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Speaker 2: up to this kind of grilling. But maybe more important,
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Speaker 2: the question that we should ask is, can you imagine
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Speaker 2: the grilling that we do with these nominees. We sit
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Speaker 2: them down in front of the country televised and different
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Speaker 2: senators with varying levels of scandals and things sometimes in
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Speaker 2: their past, and they grill them. They ask them all
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Speaker 2: the hard questions, did you do this, did you do that?
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Speaker 2: Tell us the truth about what you did on this
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Speaker 2: date in nineteen one hundred and seventy four, whatever like
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Speaker 2: They talk like that, but they ask them these questions,
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Speaker 2: and they scream at him. We've had two nominees for
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Speaker 2: president on the Democrat side back to back. We had
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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris and we had Joe Biden, and they didn't
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Speaker 2: even face this kind of grilling from the press. They
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Speaker 2: weren't even putting themselves in a position where the media
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Speaker 2: could ask them hard questions. If they wanted to do
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Speaker 2: an interview, it had to be under their specific guidelines
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Speaker 2: and restrictions. They never were really grilled on anything. They
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Speaker 2: weren't even vetted as candidates. Harris didn't even win any
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Speaker 2: actual primaries. They just kind of said it's going to
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Speaker 2: be her we're going to give it to her. We're
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Speaker 2: going to give it to her, and we're going to
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Speaker 2: use the same strategy we did with him. We're just
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Speaker 2: gonna lay low and we're not going to do anything
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Speaker 2: that allows anybody to vet this whole process. And that's
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Speaker 2: basically the way that we've done things two elections in
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Speaker 2: a row. Imagine if Harris had won. Imagine if Kamala
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Speaker 2: Harris had become the President of the United States. I
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Speaker 2: know it's a scary thought for some, but imagine if
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Speaker 2: that had happened, and we would have had no reason
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Speaker 2: for Democrats to ever actually allow somebody to be vetted. Ever,
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Speaker 2: they would have never needed to do that. Sorry, I'm
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Speaker 2: just checking the flu shot mandate mandatory for certain groups
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Speaker 2: over the years, military personnel in the forties. It looks
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Speaker 2: like some healthcare workers in some circumstances, and I guess
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Speaker 2: they've been recommended. But see, that's not mandatory, So I
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Speaker 2: don't see that it was mandatory, you know, countrywide or
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Speaker 2: anything like that. They say certain groups can be and
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Speaker 2: I guess some facilities have done that. But anyway, sorry,
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Speaker 2: I just had to look that up. I wanted to
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Speaker 2: get that accurate, so this idea that you can get to,
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Speaker 2: you know, X number of votes away from well, in
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Speaker 2: one case, win the presidency and the other case, get
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Speaker 2: X number of votes away from possibly winning other than
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Speaker 2: losing all of the battleground states without actually having to
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Speaker 2: go through any of this kind of grilling. It's a
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Speaker 2: little silly, isn't it that you could be that close
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Speaker 2: not winning a primary and then not actually being properly vetted,
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Speaker 2: just doing home game type interviews, very very friendly people
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Speaker 2: doing the interviews for you, asking the questions. In some
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Speaker 2: cases you've approved ahead of time and not actually going
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Speaker 2: through the grilling. But we're going to grill all of
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Speaker 2: these people in the cabinet positions, just even when you
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Speaker 2: know that they're probably going to be approved anyway, because
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Speaker 2: Republicans have the numbers, right, they prove that with hegseeth.
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Speaker 2: They managed to get that done. They should be able
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Speaker 2: to have the numbers. Are they going to have the
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Speaker 2: numbers for some of these other candidates. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if that's going to happen. I don't
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Speaker 2: know if cash Betel is going to be there. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know where it's going to go
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Speaker 2: with some of these nominees, but it's a silly thought
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Speaker 2: to think that they're facing more scrutiny than Harris did
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Speaker 2: planned to spend that money on necessities like rent and utilities, groceries,
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Speaker 2: credit card debt. Fifty six percent of those spending their
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Speaker 2: refund money on credit card debt or using that to
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Speaker 2: pay off holiday expenses. Back to that in a second.
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Speaker 2: Just eight percent say that they're planning to spend the
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Speaker 2: refund on fun stuff like new clothes, entertainment, and new phones.
23:34
Speaker 2: Keep in mind, as we were going into Christmas, we
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Speaker 2: were getting from Thanksgiving to Christmas, and we were in
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Speaker 2: that phase of the end of the Biden years and
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Speaker 2: getting ready to bring President Trump back into office, and
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Speaker 2: there were reports of people spending an unusually high amount
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Speaker 2: of money at Christmas time, and we talked on the
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Speaker 2: show then that it had to do with this positive
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Speaker 2: of things are going to get better and they're going
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Speaker 2: to improve in twenty twenty five, And I said, then,
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Speaker 2: I felt like a lot of people were putting stuff
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Speaker 2: on credit cards that ended up being the case, and
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Speaker 2: this something kind of fits in with all of that.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, we're going to use our refund for both
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Speaker 2: something fun and something that's a necessity all at the
24:23
Speaker 2: same time. But it just relates to something for the summer.
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Speaker 2: I told you, I'm going to talk about it more later,
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Speaker 2: but we're we got something planned for the summer, all right.
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Speaker 2: A study from University of Southern California and Carnegie Mellon
24:38
Speaker 2: University revealed something that we all knew. Attractive people and
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Speaker 2: better jobs and make more money than less attractive peers.
24:45
Speaker 2: Hey researchers followed NBA graduates fifteen years and found that
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Speaker 2: those considered attractive we're fifty two point four percent more
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Speaker 2: likely to get prestigious jobs, earning an extra twenty five
24:58
Speaker 2: hundred and eight dollars per year on average. The most
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Speaker 2: attractive people, those in the top ten percent, saw their
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Speaker 2: yearly salary boost go over fifty five hundred dollars. The
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Speaker 2: attractiveness premium appeared in various industries, but wasn't the same everywhere.
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Speaker 2: Jobs with lots of client coworker interaction, like management consulting
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Speaker 2: showed the biggest benefits for attractive people. On the other hand,
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Speaker 2: tech roles like it and engineering, where the work tends
25:26
Speaker 2: to happen behind the scenes, had much smaller effects. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: see no surprises. According to the study, individuals in the
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Speaker 2: top ten percent of the attractiveness scale had an eleven
25:36
Speaker 2: percent advantage in career outcomes compared to those in the
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Speaker 2: bottom ten percent. So basically, if you're good looking, you
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Speaker 2: got no real excuses. You should be working that to
25:51
Speaker 2: your advantage. That's what you should be doing. I know
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Speaker 2: someone I want to tell a story, but I don't
25:58
Speaker 2: want to. I know someone who quite attractive and has
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Speaker 2: done well in the broadcasting industry, but constantly complains about
26:07
Speaker 2: how it's so difficult because of their gender to get far.
26:13
Speaker 2: And I can't make any judgments on what their experiences are.
26:17
Speaker 2: But I just sit there and I think you've done
26:18
Speaker 2: better than you really should have. They're not overly skilled
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Speaker 2: at broadcasting. I'm not gonna tell you who it is,
26:24
Speaker 2: so don't ask. But not especially skilled at broadcasting, but
26:30
Speaker 2: is attractive, and that's been the entire basis for any
26:34
Speaker 2: other career. So I don't want to hear it. I
26:35
Speaker 2: don't want to hear it at all. The health benefits
26:40
Speaker 2: of owning a doll and I'm not bitter good for them.
26:42
Speaker 2: I just don't complain about it, that's all. Just don't
26:45
Speaker 2: complain about it. Health benefits of owning a dog have
26:49
Speaker 2: been known for a while and are widespread. I know
26:53
Speaker 2: some of you are thinking I'm gonna ask him who
26:54
Speaker 2: it is. I'm not going to tell you, but a
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Speaker 2: new study finds that it's particularly beneficial for older people,
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Speaker 2: especially if they take their furry friends on daily walks.
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Speaker 2: Researchers at Trinity College in Dublin studied two groups of
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Speaker 2: older people over the past couple of years. One group
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Speaker 2: took their dogs for a walk at least four times
27:13
Speaker 2: a week, and the other did not. What they found
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Speaker 2: was the ones who walked their dogs had much better
27:18
Speaker 2: mobility and were quicker, had better balance, and forty percent
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Speaker 2: less likely to fall, thus leading to a longer and
27:26
Speaker 2: healthier life. Dogs are great. This is not breaking news,
27:33
Speaker 2: and it's also not a surprise that I would say
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Speaker 2: I would be all about this study because I'm pro
27:39
Speaker 2: dog all day pro and we walk our dog at
27:43
Speaker 2: least I think we go like six to seven times
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Speaker 2: a week. I mean, if we could do it every day,
27:48
Speaker 2: we do it every day. There's the occasional miss because
27:51
Speaker 2: of weather or whatever, but for the most part, if
27:53
Speaker 2: the weather's fine, we do it every day. So that
27:56
Speaker 2: means I've got lots of dexterity balance. I don't know
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Speaker 2: that they're talking about. I hope they're not talking about
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Speaker 2: me yet. I hope I haven't hit that senior category
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Speaker 2: they're talking about in the study just yet. That'll do
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