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Getting the House in Order · 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, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, eleventh day of February. I'm West Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me, closing out over these final hours of my
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Speaker 2: fiftieth year, orbiting the sun on this earth, the big
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Speaker 2: blue marble in the sky. This afternoon we'll get to
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Speaker 2: my actual official birthday point. So I'm in those final
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Speaker 2: hours of being forty nine and just appreciating that. Just
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Speaker 2: appreciating those final hours of it. One of the things
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Speaker 2: about me and this is just you know, you have
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Speaker 2: to have goals. You have to have you have to
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Speaker 2: have goals in life. I mean, you don't have to,
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Speaker 2: but it certainly helps sometimes. I'm the kind of person
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Speaker 2: that I need these, even if they are many goals
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Speaker 2: or decade long goals or whatever. It is. So one
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Speaker 2: of those goals for me, I had a couple about
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Speaker 2: turning fifty, and I you know, worked worked hard for
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Speaker 2: those those to accomplish those goals. And I think and
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Speaker 2: understand this, this is not meant to in any way
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Speaker 2: seem like a brag. This isn't meant to be anything
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Speaker 2: other than just goals. And accomplishments. Right, So one of
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Speaker 2: my goals that I set and all of this kind
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Speaker 2: of mindset started around forty. So that's that's where we
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Speaker 2: have to start with. Because close to forty was the
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Speaker 2: first time I realized that I had some significant issues
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Speaker 2: with my hips. And I've talked about this before, but
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Speaker 2: if you haven't missed any of the shows where I've
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Speaker 2: discussed or radio or whatever, I have have had multiple
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Speaker 2: surgeries on my hips. I still have original hips, I
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Speaker 2: have original parts. I had too much bone in my
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Speaker 2: hip joints both sides, and I've had to have them
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Speaker 2: surgically repaired, like bone removed from the from the socket
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Speaker 2: or from the femur, and procedures on both sides multiple
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Speaker 2: times to do that. And back then there was discussion about,
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Speaker 2: you know, replacing the hip versus you know, doing that surgery. Now,
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Speaker 2: recovery time on replacing the hip much faster than the
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Speaker 2: procedure that I had. However, hips, when they're replaced, they
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Speaker 2: eventually themselves have to be replaced, and there's you know,
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Speaker 2: they have a life expectancy, if you will. So my
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Speaker 2: thinking was I would rather keep the original parts and
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Speaker 2: extend you know, the time that I have that before
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Speaker 2: I end up probably having to have a replacement at
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Speaker 2: some point, or two replacements. So I've kicked that can.
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Speaker 2: And I thought to myself, I didn't want to do
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Speaker 2: that at forty, and I thought, if I can get
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Speaker 2: to fifty before I have to have a replacement, that
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Speaker 2: would be fantastic. So it looks like I'm going to
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Speaker 2: make it. It looks like I'm going to make it.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to have a hip replaced before the
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Speaker 2: day's over, so that's good. I feel like that was
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Speaker 2: a small goal that I had and in the course
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Speaker 2: of time and no plans anytime soon to have my
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Speaker 2: hip replaced. And then also the just in general, there
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Speaker 2: was a point where I realized that I'm closing was
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Speaker 2: in my forties, and I was thinking, man, if I
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Speaker 2: can make it to fifty without having to be on
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Speaker 2: any regular medication, you know. I know people in their
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Speaker 2: forties in thirties, you know, cholesterol medicine every day, or
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Speaker 2: they take, you know, blood pressure medicine every day. And
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Speaker 2: I thought, well, if I can do whatever I have
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Speaker 2: to do to try to prevent that until I at
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Speaker 2: least turn fifty, that would be great. And yes, mission
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Speaker 2: accomplished unless I'm told before you know this afternoon, it
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Speaker 2: looks like I'm gonna make it to fifty without having
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Speaker 2: to take some sort of regular medication every day. And
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Speaker 2: is no not knocking anyone who does, and it's not.
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Speaker 2: It's just something that I've kind of set as a
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Speaker 2: goal and I thought, and you know, when I go
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Speaker 2: for my annual check up here soon, maybe they're going
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Speaker 2: to start me on something I don't know, but I'll
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Speaker 2: have made it to fifty. So mission accomplished. And another
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Speaker 2: thing about me that not everybody knows. But I'm just
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Speaker 2: throwing this out there because I made it another decade,
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Speaker 2: another decade of my life without vomiting. So of the
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Speaker 2: things that could happen, this this could be the one,
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Speaker 2: you know, I've only got that that's more likely to
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Speaker 2: happen before my birthday than the other things. However, it's
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Speaker 2: been a very long time. I was in my very
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Speaker 2: very early twenties the last time I vomited. So I
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Speaker 2: made it, you know, through my thirties and my forties
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Speaker 2: without it, most of almost all of my twenties. It's
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Speaker 2: been a very very long time. I've been alive longer
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Speaker 2: without like I've got a good vomit streak going, is
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying, or a non vomit streak, so you know,
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Speaker 2: but anyway, got to have goals. That's all I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: That's the that's the message. That's the message on on
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Speaker 2: the on the day of my birth. That's the message
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Speaker 2: I've got for you as we as we celebrate closing
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Speaker 2: out my fiftieth year. I wanted to talk this morning
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Speaker 2: about about Elon Musk, and I know that this seems
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Speaker 2: to be one of those stories it just kind of
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Speaker 2: keeps going and going, and I wanted I know people
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Speaker 2: are just kind of confused and frustrated because they don't
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Speaker 2: understand as Musk is finding all of this government waste,
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Speaker 2: and people are getting angry about it, and people that
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Speaker 2: appreciate the fact that eliminating some government waste could ultimately
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Speaker 2: long term save the republic. Right, It's one of those
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Speaker 2: things that if we go further and further into dead,
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Speaker 2: especially to China, that does not bode well for our
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Speaker 2: future or for our grandchildren and great grandchildren. And some
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Speaker 2: people look at this big picture. Some people don't. Some
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Speaker 2: people just kind of go ah like him eye, he's
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Speaker 2: kind of quirky and weird, and he threw his hand
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Speaker 2: out one time and it looked like a Nazi salute.
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Speaker 2: And the people that understand the value in cutting government waste,
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Speaker 2: the people that understand that maybe our taxes could go down,
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Speaker 2: or if the taxes don't go down, maybe the money
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Speaker 2: that is, you know, collected our money that our government takes,
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Speaker 2: maybe that money could go towards, I don't know, helping
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Speaker 2: those people in the Carolinas that still need help in rebuilding,
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Speaker 2: Helping the people as much as I mean the people. Yes,
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Speaker 2: bailing the government side of it out in California is
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Speaker 2: the part that a lot of people are going. They
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Speaker 2: shouldn't have been in that position. They put themselves in
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Speaker 2: a bad position. But we still care about the people
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Speaker 2: in California. There are people who live there in the
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Speaker 2: in the Palisades, there are people who live there in
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Speaker 2: La that really need our help. And maybe they're coming
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Speaker 2: to realization that, hey, we voted the wrong way and
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Speaker 2: that's part of this problem. But anyway, that aside, there's
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Speaker 2: people in Florida with hurricane damage. There's people that still
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Speaker 2: need our help within our borders, within our walls in
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Speaker 2: this country. So maybe he could go towards that, maybe
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Speaker 2: could actually go towards cleaning up some of our cities.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it could go towards improving things instead of waste,
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Speaker 2: instead of condoms to the Middle East, instead of so
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Speaker 2: many things. But hey, most of us are looking at
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Speaker 2: big picture, and there's people who just can't see big
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Speaker 2: picture and they want to be critical of Musk and say, well,
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Speaker 2: how dare he go through all of these things? And
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Speaker 2: no one elected him? And there's people pointing out no
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Speaker 2: one elected Falci, there's people pointing out, no one actually
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Speaker 2: elected Kamala Harris to be the nominee for president. And
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Speaker 2: those are great points. Those are better points than anybody
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Speaker 2: saying anything about Musk or the co President conversation or
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Speaker 2: any of that. But anyway, so I guess just trying
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Speaker 2: to look at things from this standpoint, and I've tried
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Speaker 2: to break it down the best way I can to
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Speaker 2: understand why they're people that are so angry and so
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Speaker 2: upset about what Musk is doing. For the most part,
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Speaker 2: most people, most families have to have, even if it's
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Speaker 2: not in stone, even if it's not written out, they
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Speaker 2: have some sort of budget that they live by. Money
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Speaker 2: comes into the home money goes out of the home,
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Speaker 2: you would hope. I mean the goal should be if
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Speaker 2: it's not that at the end of the month or
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Speaker 2: the end of the year, you're not only in the black,
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Speaker 2: but you've been able to put some money into savings
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Speaker 2: towards your future. That should be the goal. You spend
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Speaker 2: less than you bring in, and you also are able
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Speaker 2: to put some aside for the future, and you're able
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Speaker 2: to live and enjoy your life. All of those things
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Speaker 2: are important. So because you can be too tight, there's
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Speaker 2: people who just don't spend anything. They're scared to spend
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Speaker 2: a dollar on anything, and they just think, man, I
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Speaker 2: got to save every bit of it and they've got
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Speaker 2: more than they need to retire and live all of
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Speaker 2: their days, but they're still afraid to spend any money
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Speaker 2: on anything. That's a bit extreme. But there are those people,
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Speaker 2: and that's say everybody can do however they want to
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Speaker 2: do this, but that's that should be our goal. I
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Speaker 2: think enjoy your life, help others put some money aside,
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Speaker 2: and don't overspend. That should be all part of the goal.
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Speaker 2: When a country doesn't do that, then it's a problem.
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Speaker 2: So imagine you're a family who who maybe you're in
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Speaker 2: some households, they spend more. They'd rather live in a
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Speaker 2: house they can't afford, or drive a car that they
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Speaker 2: can't afford, and just stay in the red all the time.
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Speaker 2: And they're not putting anything together for the future. And
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Speaker 2: that's that's the way we've been fun functioning as a country.
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Speaker 2: But imagine, if you will, if you're even, if you're
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Speaker 2: just a family that just kind of breaks even. They're
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Speaker 2: not saving anything for the future, and they're just breaking even.
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Speaker 2: So imagine, and that's not the way we've been managed
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Speaker 2: as a as a country, as a government. But imagine
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Speaker 2: if that were the case. Okay, just imagine if we
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Speaker 2: were at that point somehow, or we get to that point.
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Speaker 2: And but just think about if your household, that's what
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Speaker 2: you do, you got you're just breaking even, and then
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Speaker 2: suddenly one day you find out, oh the mortgage has
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Speaker 2: gone up. You have to pay an extra two hundred
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Speaker 2: dollars a month. I'd somebody tell me that the other
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Speaker 2: day that their mortgage went up two hundred dollars a
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Speaker 2: month and they got a little part time side job
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Speaker 2: to help make up for that. And that's what some
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Speaker 2: people have to do. That's what people had to do
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Speaker 2: to make up for the inflation. That's what people had
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Speaker 2: to do to navigate through COVID post COVID in the
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Speaker 2: and inflation that that hit all of us anyway. So
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Speaker 2: but imagine that, Okay, imagine that all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: like you don't you just you notice that your your
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Speaker 2: power bill goes up a lot, and you think, well,
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Speaker 2: I gotta, I gotta, you know that's gonna be a
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Speaker 2: way I'm going to bleed out. You realize that, you know,
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Speaker 2: heating or cooling your home suddenly goes way up. Imagine
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Speaker 2: that your water bill spikes and it's just ridiculously high,
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Speaker 2: and I'll focus. I mean, all of those things kind
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Speaker 2: of happen at once. But then you know, you're trying
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Speaker 2: to figure out why why did everything spike so much?
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Speaker 2: And then you realize, well, there's there's some sort of
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Speaker 2: a water leak. One of the pipes is leaking, and
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Speaker 2: we've been leaking and it's caused the water bill to
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Speaker 2: go up. And you realize, oh, I've got windows in
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Speaker 2: my house that I didn't realize. It's been open all
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Speaker 2: during the winter, all during the summer, and it's caused
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Speaker 2: you know, heating and cooling my house to skyrocket, and
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Speaker 2: then you realize that someone has You've got an outdoor
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Speaker 2: outlet that someone has put an extension cord to and
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Speaker 2: it's running to the neighbor's house and they're they're they're
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Speaker 2: powering all of their appliances off of your electricity and
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Speaker 2: it's gone up. And then you just decide that the
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Speaker 2: person who's who's you hire someone to go around or
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Speaker 2: someone volunteers say let me let me look around for you,
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Speaker 2: and they find the leak and they say, hey, we
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Speaker 2: can We can stop the leak and save you some money.
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Speaker 2: We can unplug this extension cord and save you some money.
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Speaker 2: We can close these windows and save you some money.
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Speaker 2: So all of that would make sense if you're the homeowner.
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Speaker 2: To the homeowner, you go, well, that sounds great. I'll
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Speaker 2: have more money, I'll be able to stay in the black,
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Speaker 2: I'll be able to have some savings. But imagine what
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Speaker 2: the people who live next door feel about this when
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Speaker 2: suddenly they have to pay for their own electricity. Imagine
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Speaker 2: what the people at the water company feel when they go, oh,
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Speaker 2: we were making money off of that. Most people with
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Speaker 2: the water company don't feel that way. But just imagine
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Speaker 2: this hypothetical you know water company, it's run by some evil,
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Speaker 2: you know, Bond villain type people. And then the same
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Speaker 2: for your you know, your power, you're let your whether
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Speaker 2: you're using like gas or whatever. Electricity would also have
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Speaker 2: an impact on you know, running your air conditioning. So
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Speaker 2: imagine how those people feel. They would probably be more
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Speaker 2: than prepared to run a hateful anti campaign against the
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Speaker 2: person who's going around and saying, hey, unplug this cable.
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Speaker 2: Why don't you just pull this cable out of this
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Speaker 2: outlet and then your neighbors can't steal from you. And
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Speaker 2: that's basically what's gone on here. Except also now imagine
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Speaker 2: that you got politicians involved, and they're the ones that
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Speaker 2: are hurting the most. They're the ones who are tend
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Speaker 2: to have this tendency now to lose the most money
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Speaker 2: from all of these cuts. I know it should be
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Speaker 2: basic kind of common sense for most people, but as
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Speaker 2: a lot of people going, I don't understand why everyone's
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Speaker 2: hating Elon so much. Clearly he must be a Nazi
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Speaker 2: because he put his hand out this way. And you know,
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Speaker 2: we did a whole show on this anti semitism that
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Speaker 2: swept the country. You know, right when we went through
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Speaker 2: this at graduation ceremonies last year and people were protesting
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Speaker 2: Israel and it's still happening. Someone tried to do it
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Speaker 2: at the Super Bowl. They were tackled and grabbed as
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Speaker 2: they were trying to run out during the halftime show
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Speaker 2: or whatever with a Palestini in flag or a shirt.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I understand there is a difference between,
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Speaker 2: you know, fighting for Palestinian rights and being hateful towards
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Speaker 2: Jewish people. Sadly, there is an overlap. If you got
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Speaker 2: those you know, the circles, there's an overlap there for some,
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Speaker 2: not for everybody, not for everybody. I've got friends with
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Speaker 2: Palestinian heritage and they're you know, they want certain things
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Speaker 2: for the Palestinians and it's not so much a kill
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Speaker 2: all the Jews. But we saw that happening on our
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Speaker 2: streets in America from people who don't even understand what
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Speaker 2: they're talking about. We had anti Semitism really pop its
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Speaker 2: head up, but for some reason, we ignore it when
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Speaker 2: it's a protester that might vote Democrat. But if they
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Speaker 2: can find a hand gesture done by someone who clearly
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Speaker 2: in context didn't have anything to do with throwing up
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Speaker 2: a nazi Kyle Hitler. We just because he's the guy
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Speaker 2: right now that's turned the lights on and all the
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Speaker 2: roaches are running and they're scared, and they don't like him,
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Speaker 2: so they're gonna call him a nazi. And that's it's
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Speaker 2: a strange time to be alive. And I say it
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Speaker 2: over and over and over again. But right now, as
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Speaker 2: we're trying to we have an administration that's trying to
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Speaker 2: get us on track, that's trying to cut out waste
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Speaker 2: and is trying to dig deep into this deep state.
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Speaker 2: And that's what they're doing. And the roaches are running
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Speaker 2: and they're trying to collect them. The roaches are running
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Speaker 2: while someone is stomping, you know. That's the thing. The
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Speaker 2: roaches they got to get somewhere to cover before the
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Speaker 2: stomping can happen. And that's the other part of it.
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Speaker 2: So if that helps, That's why when people ask me,
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Speaker 2: I don't get at it. What are they so upset about?
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Speaker 2: That's it's he's unplugged. He's unplugged the extension cord, he's
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Speaker 2: unplugged the uh, he's removed their ability, he's taken away
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Speaker 2: the teat right, that's what he's done, and they hate
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Speaker 2: him for it, and they hate Trump for putting him
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Speaker 2: in place, and they're going to obviously do everything they
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Speaker 2: after the break. Well, now that we're on the other
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Speaker 2: the door. It's coming up fast. Sorry, Valentine's Day. And then,
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Speaker 2: of course on the fifteenth, the always popular side Ho Day.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a thing. I'm not advocating, you know,
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Speaker 2: you to have someone on the side. I'm just pointing
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Speaker 2: out the fact that there is a day. It's called
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Speaker 2: side Ho Day and it happens on the fifteenth. So
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Speaker 2: just or side chick Day or whatever they call it,
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Speaker 2: there's a couple of names for it. But first, before
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Speaker 2: we can get to side Ho side Chick Day, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you have to focus on, of course Valentine's Day. Well,
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Speaker 2: a new survey finds that men may actually be more
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Speaker 2: romantic than women, the hopeless romantics in the couples. The
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Speaker 2: survey of romance novel readers found that sixty three percent
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Speaker 2: of men said that they were die hard romantics compared
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Speaker 2: to sixty percent of women, and male fans of romance
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Speaker 2: novels spent more time reading them than women. All Right,
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Speaker 2: So a couple thoughts on this as far as it
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Speaker 2: being an actual survey that was done, because I understand
23:31
Speaker 2: sometimes these surveys get done because you know, they're they're
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Speaker 2: promoting their product, or because someone paid someone to do
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Speaker 2: some sort of a study, or butt's let's can we
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Speaker 2: focus on the fact that they're polling men who read
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Speaker 2: romance novels. That's gotta be what like nine guys. I
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Speaker 2: don't I mean, don't get me wrong. I understand anybody
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Speaker 2: can read anything. That's fine, okay, but I would think
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Speaker 2: they are exceptions, not necessarily in the majority of men
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Speaker 2: I've seen them. I used to work in a bookstore many,
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Speaker 2: many years ago. I can tell you this. Many times,
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Speaker 2: while straightening up around the store, you take a minute
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Speaker 2: and you go, what is this book? And you kind
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Speaker 2: of thumb through it, and that was encouraged so that
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Speaker 2: you could talk about the books in the store. I
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Speaker 2: never even picked up a romance novel other than to
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Speaker 2: just point at something on the cover. The shirtless guy,
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Speaker 2: the woman with the heaving bosom or whatever like. I
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Speaker 2: would go look at that, and then I'd put it down.
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Speaker 2: I never once opened it up and thumbed through it.
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Speaker 2: I've never read a word from one. I don't think
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Speaker 2: many guys have. So anyway, take that survey with a
24:41
Speaker 2: great assault, if you will. A new survey found twenty
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Speaker 2: five percent of people would break up with their partner
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Speaker 2: over a bad Valentine's Day gift. But according to the survey,
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Speaker 2: it's not about the cost. People prefer sentimental gifts, homemade cards,
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Speaker 2: or romantic experiences over luxury items. This survey was done
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Speaker 2: by people who make homemade cartinal. Yeah, that makes sense.
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Speaker 2: Who doesn't like a nice, thoughtful gift. I received a
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Speaker 2: really thoughtful birthday gift over the weekend from my friend Jay,
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Speaker 2: and it was very nice. I collect ice. He gave
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Speaker 2: me a D fifty. If you don't if you're not
25:22
Speaker 2: familiar with the way dice work, when they know you know,
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Speaker 2: D fifty means it's a fifty sided die in honor
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Speaker 2: of my fiftieth birthday. And it was yellow and black,
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Speaker 2: the colors of the soccer club that I founded thirty
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Speaker 2: one years ago with my with a friend and you know,
25:42
Speaker 2: my brother Matt has and I have kept it going
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Speaker 2: for a long time. He currently is keeping the keeping
25:50
Speaker 2: the fire burning, keeping the torch burning. But anyway, it
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Speaker 2: was very thoughtful. Yes, that's a very thoughtful. It's a
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Speaker 2: very nice gift. So yeah, I get that when it
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Speaker 2: comes to any sort of gift, when it's there's thought
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Speaker 2: put into it, it's it's certainly appreciated. More. Do you
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Speaker 2: have a spare bedroom in your home and what do
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Speaker 2: you do with that spare bedroom? Fifty one percent of Americans,
26:13
Speaker 2: according to a you gov poll, have have a spare
26:17
Speaker 2: bedroom in their home, and according to the survey, guest
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Speaker 2: bedroom is the most popular thing for it. That's ours
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Speaker 2: is a hybrid. It's a guest bedroom, but it's also
26:27
Speaker 2: a home office. So guest bedroom, storage, home office, hobbies
26:36
Speaker 2: bedroom for someone who currently lives somewhere else, okay, an
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Speaker 2: exercise room, library, do nothing with it, a playroom, a
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Speaker 2: place for the pets, an entertainment room, and another is
26:51
Speaker 2: the list on there. Yeah. I mean if you are
26:54
Speaker 2: able to use it as a guest bedroom when people
26:57
Speaker 2: come to stay with you, I think that makes sense
26:58
Speaker 2: as being and that's primarily I mean, we have that,
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Speaker 2: and then we also have, like I said, the office
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Speaker 2: computers in there. If you're crashing at our guest bedroom,
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Speaker 2: there's gonna be a computer and a desk in the room.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's what's true maybe with a lot
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Speaker 2: of people. So there you go. All right, that'll do
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Speaker 2: thank you for the birthday wishes. I've heard from some
27:31
Speaker 2: of you already yesterday and a couple this morning already,
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Speaker 2: and I appreciate that very much. Thank you for listening.
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