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Colonizing the Democratic Party · 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, fourth day of August Time, West Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. We are coming up on Labor Day weekend
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Speaker 2: about a month from now, a little less than a
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Speaker 2: month from now, we'll roll on into Labor Day weekend
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Speaker 2: and that is when dragon Con happens in downtown Atlanta
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Speaker 2: inside five to four star hotels and America's Mart and
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Speaker 2: it happens every single Labor Day in Atlanta. This is
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Speaker 2: the fortieth dragon Con as they prepare to celebrate that milestone,
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Speaker 2: and this is my twenty fifth dragon Con, I'm celebrating
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Speaker 2: my own milestone and we will get you ready for
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Speaker 2: on August the twenty ninth on about two hundred radio
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Speaker 2: cities and areas that are overlapped by those radio stations
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Speaker 2: from that are based out of Georgia. And we will
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Speaker 2: have an assortment of guests who will be appearing at
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Speaker 2: the convention, meeting fans, signing autographs, taking photos, and the
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Speaker 2: guests will be appearing on the show. Still to be named.
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Speaker 2: I have my list I'm looking at right now. Once
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Speaker 2: the guest becomes confirmed and the interview is done, I
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Speaker 2: they'll be back this year because these are some of
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Speaker 2: the long term vendors we talked to last year, and
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Speaker 2: you can check out last year's DragonCon Pregame Show on
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Speaker 2: the DragonCon Pregame Show podcast available where you get this podcast.
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Speaker 2: It is sponsored this year and last year and many
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Speaker 2: many years in the past by Columbus State University's Coca
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Speaker 2: Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center. I want
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Speaker 2: to talk to you today. We've been discussing this idea
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Speaker 2: of the Democratic Socialists of America, the Democrat Party that
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Speaker 2: has been taken over by has taken over the Democrat Party,
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Speaker 2: and it is something that should have our attention. Shouldn't
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Speaker 2: be a surprise. This is a big part of how
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Speaker 2: things tend to work in the country. I think that
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Speaker 2: one of the things that's very telling about what's happening
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Speaker 2: now with the Democrat Party and the way that the
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Speaker 2: differences between Democrats and Republicans. And we went through this
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Speaker 2: conversation a while back where we were just discussing the
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Speaker 2: fact that the there's been a flip, if you will,
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Speaker 2: on certain issues, and one of those issues for me
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Speaker 2: that had a drastic change in the way it's played
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Speaker 2: out is the fact that Republicans, at least when I
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Speaker 2: was a young voter, the first time I voted at eighteen,
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Speaker 2: or when I turned eighteen, when I'm trying to think
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Speaker 2: of the first election that I voted in, the first
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Speaker 2: presidential election I voted in, I guess that would have
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Speaker 2: been Which one would that have been for me? So
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Speaker 2: I turned eighteen in ninety three, right, so that'd been
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Speaker 2: ninety six, right, it would have been the first one
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Speaker 2: I voted in. Yeah, I'm doing that right, And I
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Speaker 2: voted in that midterm, I guess in ninety four. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: back then, Republicans were perceived as the party of, you know,
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Speaker 2: the religious right, and they were letting religion dictate the
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Speaker 2: things that were that they voted for. And that was
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Speaker 2: reasonably accurate certainly. Back then. I remember the church where
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Speaker 2: I was going, and I guess this was part of
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Speaker 2: changes that came along in you know, what was allowed.
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Speaker 2: We weren't necessarily told this is who you should vote for.
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Speaker 2: We were just told, these are the people that vote
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Speaker 2: for these certain things that are important to us. It's
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Speaker 2: a thin line, I know, but it certainly was there.
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Speaker 2: There was an element of that. Now currently, Democrat churches
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Speaker 2: and I know some of them do this where they
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Speaker 2: just tell you is they to vote for right, or
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Speaker 2: they tell the head of you know, your fraternity and
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Speaker 2: sorority house to tell everybody who to vote for, and
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Speaker 2: things like that. Like there's things that you know, that's
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Speaker 2: the way things happen sometimes. And I still can't get
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Speaker 2: past the grown adult people that are still affiliated, like
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Speaker 2: and I'm not talking like I'm twenty five, twenty seven
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Speaker 2: and I'm still connected to my old fraternity austrity. I'm
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Speaker 2: talking like I'm eighty and I'm still connected with my
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Speaker 2: fraternity authority. But anyway, it definitely is something that still
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Speaker 2: goes on. But one of the things that's interesting to
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Speaker 2: me is the way that the you know, back then
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Speaker 2: what was perceived is the crazy religious right. You know,
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Speaker 2: people would go, oh, they're the ones screaming in the
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Speaker 2: streets that you know, you gotta need redemption now because
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Speaker 2: Jesus is coming soon. And that was the verbiage. People
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Speaker 2: were talking about the end of the world, and people
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Speaker 2: were talking about those kinds of things, and and there
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Speaker 2: were a couple of those stories that came up. I mean,
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Speaker 2: remember I was in high school when some of those
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Speaker 2: came up, and they're like, oh, my gosh, is the
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Speaker 2: world really going to end in nineteen eighty eight, you know,
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Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. So now it's you know, the
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Speaker 2: left that says, oh, no, climate change is going to
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Speaker 2: bring about the end of the world. And it's a
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Speaker 2: different religion. It's a very different religion, and it's a
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Speaker 2: very different way that they try to convince you about urgency.
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Speaker 2: See back then, on the right, people would say, you know,
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Speaker 2: the world's going to end, you know, you better get
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Speaker 2: to know Jesus. Now it's the climate is going to
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Speaker 2: kill us all and the world's going to and you
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Speaker 2: better vote Democrat. See how it's different. I mean, and
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Speaker 2: there's been a bit of a flip to me on
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Speaker 2: who the crazies are in that regard. And I don't
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Speaker 2: think that I think when someone says get to know
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Speaker 2: Jesus before the world ends. I don't see that. I
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Speaker 2: don't see them as crazy. Now are there people who
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Speaker 2: stand in the streets and and you know, scream things
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Speaker 2: and put on these performances in these shows. And there
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Speaker 2: used to be that remember that church, that that organization
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Speaker 2: that would go out and talk about dead soldiers. Now
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Speaker 2: those people were crazy. But I think that people screaming
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Speaker 2: about climate change in the street, and people that are
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Speaker 2: you know, pledging their forever hatred of Israel river to
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Speaker 2: the sea, like they're like those jerks, they're like those
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Speaker 2: those a holes, you know from that church. I think
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Speaker 2: that's a fair comparison if you're you know, being anti Semitic. Sure,
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Speaker 2: I think that's fair to say. And once when time,
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Speaker 2: the left embraced the Jewish vote and embraced Israel, and
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Speaker 2: the right is the one that's now telling you, hey,
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Speaker 2: if you don't want people that you're voting with to
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Speaker 2: hate your guts, come to us. We don't hate you.
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Speaker 2: We don't hate Israel, we don't hate your people, we
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Speaker 2: don't hate your history, we don't hate everything about you.
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Speaker 2: In fact, we've been a long time staunch supporters of
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Speaker 2: you and your causes and your religion and everything, and
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Speaker 2: we're here for you. And it's got you know, it's
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Speaker 2: created a crazy dynamic for folks on the left because
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Speaker 2: I got to figure out the Demo the Jewish vote
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Speaker 2: on the left at least. Well, there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: people on the left that still have to figure out
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Speaker 2: what they're going to do about the Democratic Socialists, because,
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Speaker 2: as we've been talking about for the past few months,
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Speaker 2: we're getting closer and closer to them just coming out
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Speaker 2: and using the word communism. It's basically there, and I
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Speaker 2: guess some of them kind of have. I saw this
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Speaker 2: segment that Bill Maher did. I didn't watch it, of course, live,
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Speaker 2: but I after the fact, I saw it Bill Maher
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Speaker 2: on his show talking about the fact that the DSA
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Speaker 2: candidates are have bade the word he used. I think
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Speaker 2: this is great is he says the Democrat Party has
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Speaker 2: been colonized by socialists, and the Democrat Party being one
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Speaker 2: who's been so concerned with colonization in America, in our
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Speaker 2: history and.
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Speaker 1: All over the world.
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Speaker 2: And I've told you my thoughts on this colonization thing,
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Speaker 2: because this is a term that they use in certain
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Speaker 2: strategic scenarios, but they don't use it across the board.
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Speaker 2: So it's interesting that he's using this term for this
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Speaker 2: because I think he's right. That's a good way to
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Speaker 2: put it. It's a clever way to put it. Keep
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Speaker 2: in mind, when it comes to colonizing, the left says
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Speaker 2: we're going to colonize an area when we believe it's
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Speaker 2: right and the people that are there are just wrong.
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Speaker 2: They wanted to colonize Katar during the World Cup. They
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Speaker 2: wanted to go in and say, you don't support, you know,
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Speaker 2: gay marriage, you don't support the homosexual lifestyle here, and
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Speaker 2: we're telling you that that's not okay. So we're going
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Speaker 2: to come in and we're going to change your opinions
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Speaker 2: on that. We're going to come in and force it
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Speaker 2: on you. We're going to have athletes that are going
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Speaker 2: to be wearing rainbow wristbands and things because we know
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Speaker 2: better than you know. And then if you ask, you
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Speaker 2: know somebody who's giving a big speech on colonizing, and
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Speaker 2: say what were the things about colonizers that you didn't
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Speaker 2: like Around the world. Just take in America when you
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Speaker 2: know the early settlers came in and they were colonizing
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Speaker 2: and spreading the gospel to the Native Americans and go, well,
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Speaker 2: they thought they knew what was right and that the
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Speaker 2: Indians didn't really know what was right. You know, well
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Speaker 2: it sounds a little similar, doesn't it. It's except one
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Speaker 2: is coming in again and telling you, hey, from this standpoint,
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Speaker 2: and then you know the other is saying, no, no, we're
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Speaker 2: going to come in. We're just going to tell you
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Speaker 2: that all of your religion is wrong and that morally
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Speaker 2: we're right. And the things that you believe about these
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Speaker 2: you can have your religion, you just can't have the
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Speaker 2: parts of your religion that go against what we believe.
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Speaker 2: And we're just here for a soccer tournament. And don't
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Speaker 2: feel too bad to the Muslims there that believe differently,
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Speaker 2: because that's what they do to Christianity. They say, no,
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Speaker 2: you're not allowed to you're allowed to say this. Jesus
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Speaker 2: didn't use the word homosexual, so it's not okay. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: I'm off off topic. This is tangent mar using the
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Speaker 2: term colonizing it, and he pointed out that there are
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Speaker 2: a couple there have been a few in the party,
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Speaker 2: I guess in Congress, one of them being Adam Gray
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Speaker 2: in California. But basically they've said that they want to
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Speaker 2: pledge to moderate the party and take care of this
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Speaker 2: rise that's been taking place with the Democratic Socialist of America,
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Speaker 2: who by the way, are communists. Is you can't any
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Speaker 2: more pretend that they're not. This is Mar pointing this out, saying, look,
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Speaker 2: they're using all the same verbiage. In some cases they're
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Speaker 2: just rewording it a little bit, but they're still saying it.
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Speaker 2: And he says, these two Democrats in Congress released this
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Speaker 2: open pledge, and they say, he says, they wanted their
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Speaker 2: fellow Democrat members to sign, and it said we are
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Speaker 2: capitalists not socialists. We want safety not lawlessness. We are proud,
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Speaker 2: not ashamed of America. And Mar said, you want to
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Speaker 2: know how it did? Eight members out of two hundred
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Speaker 2: and twelve supported it. So they're afraid of what will
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Speaker 2: happen if they decide to veer away from these people
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Speaker 2: who are hijacking the party. Mar went on to say,
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Speaker 2: and know this nonsense is not where Democrat politicians are
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Speaker 2: right now, but it's also becoming raging fire festival on
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Speaker 2: the party. And neither is that neither is anyone putting out.
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Speaker 2: He says, people are actually getting elected now who literally
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Speaker 2: don't think we should have police or prisons or borders.
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Speaker 2: And he said again he pointed out that he's been
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Speaker 2: criticized for saying that to JD. Vance when the Vice
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Speaker 2: president was on his show, that if this continues to
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Speaker 2: be the case, and if the party continues to vote
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Speaker 2: communists democratic socialist communists in place, he says, my vote
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Speaker 2: would be in play. I would consider voting for Jadie Vance.
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Speaker 2: And he said he's been criticized for that, and the
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Speaker 2: way he worded it was my vote is in play
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Speaker 2: because it can't be Trump running. So I'm not living
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Speaker 2: in communist America. And I would ask this, and I
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Speaker 2: know he has his long history of not liking Trump,
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Speaker 2: but communism or Trump, like, is that really a question
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Speaker 2: that you have to have if you know the danger
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Speaker 2: of communism and that slope and it's not even a slope,
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Speaker 2: it's a cliff, he says. I mean, I know the
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Speaker 2: talking point is that it's not communism, it's socialism. He said, Okay,
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Speaker 2: I've read the quotes from the DSA platform, from their
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Speaker 2: O moles. Don't tell me I'm not seeing what I'm seeing,
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Speaker 2: And he is exactly right. I mean, this is what
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Speaker 2: we've been talking about on the show. And he even
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Speaker 2: pointed out that Mom Donnie's I guess chief of staff
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Speaker 2: actually said elect more communists in a post on X
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Speaker 2: so it's been used. I'm waiting on a candidate to
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Speaker 2: actually use it. That's the prediction I told you was
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Speaker 2: coming soon. And I think depending on how things go
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Speaker 2: in these midterms, we're going to see, especially if some
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Speaker 2: of them get elected, but with a blue wave potentially coming,
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Speaker 2: and that tends to be the case when you have
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Speaker 2: a president comes in when midterm happens, there tends to
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Speaker 2: be a switch in the other direction. Is this the
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Speaker 2: thing that could derail the blue wave? A lot of
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Speaker 2: people think it could be this idea of these democratic
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Speaker 2: socialists aka communists that are in place and on the
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Speaker 2: board and looking to take down America because that's what
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Speaker 2: they want to do. And I told you, I just
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Speaker 2: I feel like when we start talking about insurrections and things,
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Speaker 2: if they want to overthrow our government, which is what
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Speaker 2: they want to do. They want to get rid of
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Speaker 2: the Senate, they want to get rid of the President,
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Speaker 2: they want to get rid of the Supreme Court. They
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Speaker 2: want to basically throw out huge chunks of the Constitution.
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Speaker 2: They want to get rid of capitalism. It's kind of insurrectioning.
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Speaker 2: We've already done a show on this, but I like
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Speaker 2: this terminology though, that mar is using, where he says
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Speaker 2: they basically have to realize that they're being colonized by
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Speaker 2: social it's what they're doing. And you still have people
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Speaker 2: in the party letting it happen. And the question is
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Speaker 2: not so much are the elected officials going to let
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Speaker 2: it happen, it's are the American voters. Are the Democrat
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Speaker 2: voters in America going to continue to allow it to happen?
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Speaker 2: And that's where things will get very interesting in these midterms.
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Speaker 2: more West Carol Morning Show right after the break our
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Speaker 2: friendships becoming too much work? Will A new survey found
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Speaker 2: fifty two percent of adults say maintaining friendships feels like
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Speaker 2: a second job, with many spending more than half an
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Speaker 2: hour a day texting, checking in, making plans, keeping plan.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you make the plans, you got
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Speaker 2: to keep the if you're really truly maintaining the friendships right.
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Speaker 2: Nearly half say that they're exhausted from doing most of
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Speaker 2: the work to stay connected, while others wish friends would
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Speaker 2: make more of an effort to keep in touch. The
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Speaker 2: study found that while three quarters of people believe friendships
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Speaker 2: give life purpose and meaning, hobbies, exercise, and busy schedules
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Speaker 2: often take priority. Experts say that we're more connected digitally
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Speaker 2: than ever, but not necessarily more connected in real life.
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Speaker 2: That's the key to this whole thing. By the way,
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Speaker 2: the survey also found the average person has eight friends,
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Speaker 2: but only four are considered truly close. We've talked on
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Speaker 2: the show about this very thing for a little while.
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Speaker 2: It's been a while, but we did it over a
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Speaker 2: few shows about how social media gives you that false
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Speaker 2: sense that you can be close and connected with a
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Speaker 2: lot more people than you can. It's really a very
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Speaker 2: small number of people that were actually capable of kind
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Speaker 2: of maintaining in a circle of people in our lives
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Speaker 2: and this idea that you can have five thousand friends
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Speaker 2: or whatever on social media and they're not your friends.
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Speaker 2: And that's part of the thing is we kind of
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Speaker 2: venture into that territory and then this reality that there's
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Speaker 2: really probably I don't know how many I think for
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Speaker 2: each person. It might fluctuate, but this kind of gives
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Speaker 2: us a sampling of about eight people, and four of
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Speaker 2: them being really close friends that you have and you know,
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Speaker 2: and then even like, it's effort and work sometimes to
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Speaker 2: even maintain the eight. So if you're really truly trying
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Speaker 2: to maintain five thousand, you're gonna feel miserably on that.
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Speaker 2: Another side effect of weight lost drugs like ozipic and
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Speaker 2: we go vy that it's become straining on relationships. In fact,
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Speaker 2: studies show that major weight loss can double your odds
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Speaker 2: of a divorce. The reason is because you lose a
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Speaker 2: lot of weight that can lead to major changes in confidence,
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Speaker 2: lifestyle priorities, and in some cases attraction between partners. One
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Speaker 2: partner's transformation can create tension if the other doesn't share
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Speaker 2: the same health journey. Expert stress that the drugs themselves
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Speaker 2: aren't necessarily causing the breakups. Instead, it's the newfound confidence,
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Speaker 2: healthier habits, personal growth that a company weight loss that
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Speaker 2: can expose issues that were already there to begin with.
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Speaker 2: I kind of equate that a little bit too, and
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Speaker 2: it's not exactly the same, but this idea when people say, like, oh,
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Speaker 2: if you drink a diet coke that causes you to
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Speaker 2: gain weight, And you say, well, how does that cause
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Speaker 2: you to gain weight if there's no sugar, And I say, well,
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Speaker 2: it's because if you have a diet coke then you
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Speaker 2: go eat a whole cake. Well, that's a different issue.
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Speaker 2: The diet coke isn't causing the problem, and the weight
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Speaker 2: loss drug isn't causing the problem here. Obviously there's something
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Speaker 2: else going on there or I don't know. You got
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Speaker 2: people maybe that are looking in the mirror, going, man,
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Speaker 2: I look good, and I don't know if I can
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Speaker 2: still be with somebody who doesn't look good, somebody who
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Speaker 2: didn't get on the weight loss journey with me, or
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Speaker 2: whatever it is. So I think it's I think it's
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Speaker 2: definitely there's more going on there than just what's on
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Speaker 2: the surface. With back to school upon us, a new
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Speaker 2: survey finds parents putting their own mental health on the
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Speaker 2: back burner. Getting into the new school year, Nearly eight
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Speaker 2: and ten parents say that their own harsh that they
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Speaker 2: are their own harshest critic, forty percent, admitting that they
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Speaker 2: spend most of the week focusing on everyone else's needs
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Speaker 2: ahead of their own. Many parents say they're excited about
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Speaker 2: the new school year, but those positive feelings are often
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Speaker 2: mixed with guilt, anxiety, and stress. Biggest concerns balancing work,
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Speaker 2: family financial pressures, and wondering if they're doing enough for
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Speaker 2: the kids. Even though parents give their children plenty of encouragement,
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Speaker 2: many rely on like just powering threat situations rather than
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Speaker 2: actually giving themselves the same kind of support. So they
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Speaker 2: do this support for others, but not necessarily for themselves.
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Speaker 2: Experts ormind parents that taking care of your own mental
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Speaker 2: health isn't selfish. It's one of the best ways to
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Speaker 2: show up for your family. And it's also think about
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Speaker 2: on the airplane, what do they do when they give
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Speaker 2: you the little speech, the little spiel every time and
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Speaker 2: they say, you know, you have to put on your
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Speaker 2: own mask before you try to help other people. When
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Speaker 2: with putting on their mask, even your kids, parents should
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Speaker 2: put on the mask first and then help their kids
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Speaker 2: the overhead mask when they drop out in an emergency.
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Speaker 2: It's the same kind of thing, and it's not saying
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Speaker 2: you put others' mental health priorities behind your own, but
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Speaker 2: the best way to help them is for you yourself to
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Speaker 2: get some help. So it's there that'll do it. For
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