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No, the Economy Isn't Thriving Again · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day
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and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show Wednesday morning at thirty first and
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final day of January. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. We are
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getting ready to kick off month number two for the new year. How's that
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possible? I don't know, but that's where we are. I want to
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address something very quickly because I feel like some clarification needs to be made.
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I told you on this show a while back that I had a feeling that
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there was more at play with all of the Taylor Swift talk than what it
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seemed on the surface. I think a lot of people just say, oh,
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let this couple have their fun, let them do their thing, let
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them just be who they are. And that's just the neutral people, the
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people who are excited about it. Oh, they're in love, they really
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care about each other, it's it's and then there's people like me just it's
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just pretend and it's getting in the way of me watching football. I just
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want to be able to enjoy the game and not have to hear about it.
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And it's it's not It shouldn't be such a major focal point Josh Allen
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is dating Hailey Steinfeld, you know, the niece of Body by Jake Steinfeld.
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She herself also a singer and an actor and a number of things.
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And we're not hearing about that every time they play. I don't think we've
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seen one shot of her at the game up in the booth. It's it's
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this is just this Kelsey thing has become a phenomenon because of her, and
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it's it was already sort of a thing, but it really became a thing
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because of her. And I told you, I've talked to people who asked
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me, what do you think about that whole thing. I think, well,
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first of all, try not to but second of all, it's all
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fake. I mean, it just is, just like the Tom Cruise Katie
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Holmes marriage was fake. But I told you not long ago that I felt
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like this was more about what's coming later in the year, the endorsement of
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Biden and then trying to get her involved in the political season that's coming.
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I still feel that way. I was not aware of anyone when I said
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it that was already on this train saying this, but I understand that that
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message has now become like a conspiracy theory message that spread throughout the entire world.
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Okay, and some people are expressing this with like a feverish anger about
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them, so much so that we now have a reverse effect, if you
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will. It's sort of a like turning into the skid if you're driving where
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people are embracing it. I know people that are staunch left supporters, Democrat
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supporters, Ah, they just can't get enough of this Taylor Swift Travis Kelcey
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thing. They are excited about it, and they feel like, oh man,
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this is driving the Republicans crazy. And I would like to further extend
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my point that I talked about yesterday. Republicans should be on point with what
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their message is. They should not be focusing too much on the whether or
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not Taylor Swift becomes a part of this election cycle. I do still believe
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that she will have some sort of play in it. I don't think it
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should be the main focal point of people like Vivek Ramaswami. I think he
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needs to just just let it go. Just it's annoying. I think it's
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obnoxious. I do think they're planning to use her in a big capacity.
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I think abortion is going to be part of what her message will be.
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They'll try to tap into young women with her. That's just my thoughts.
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But I'm not going to be rabid and obsessed with that as it happens.
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Now people are telling us, now, this is just a conspira. It's
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not a real thing. You've got a conspiracy theory. I haven't had anybody
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say that to me directly, but I've seen it directed at a few people
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that have been talking about it. One of them is Ramaswami. But I
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do think that that's coming. But to me, she endorsed other candidates and
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it didn't matter. I'm pretty sure she endorsed Hillary Clinton. It didn't matter.
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I understand now she's a bigger phenom than she's ever been, partly because
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we're playing into this people, We're letting it become a bigger thing. I
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also, just on a side note, was not aware of the fact that
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she will be in Japan, I guess the day before the Super Bowl.
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One because I really don't care, but two because I really don't care.
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I mean, I just kept distress that. That's both of my points.
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I don't keep up with her touring schedule. It's not something you know.
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I'm not buying tickets to see her. I understand it's a great show,
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people have a great time at it all that that's not something you're necessarily going
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to see me at. If I got given free tickets, which I have
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in the past that I've been given away, but if I and I did,
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I gave away I gave away backstage passes to Taylor Swift to someone.
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But it's not something that is it's on my radar right now. If I
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was given tickets and and my bride wanted to go, which I don't know
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that she would, you know, I would probably take her, but I
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can't imagine, you know, just to take in the show. But I'm
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not. I'm not spending money on it. That's not what I'm doing.
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That's not where I am at this point in life. And there's really not
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a lot I did a lot of concerts when I was programming a music station.
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There's not a lot of concerts I would buy tickets for anyway. I'm
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just at that point. Also, there's a lot of bands that I like
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that would probably give a chunk of the money that I give them for the
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tickets to a candidate that I don't support. That's also part of it,
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So there's a few things that play there. So I don't keep up with
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where she's going to be. But this is going to be an interesting part
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of how this plays out because there's a lot of speculation. Will she do
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her show in Japan on February the tenth and then get on a private jet
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and B line to Vegas taking advantage of the international date line. I can
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tell you this. I've done a lot of international travel to that part of
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the world from that part of the world, not specifically Australia, and it
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is it is a big advantage when you're coming this direction and not going that
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direction. You leave here to go to Japan or Australia, and at some
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point you're basically going to lose a day as you start traveling, and then
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when you get there, you're like, what happened to you know? What
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happened to that day? Where to go? Well, you get it when
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you come back, if you come back right. And there's speculation about whether
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or not she'll fly back and watch the Super Bowl so she can be there
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and we can look at her and see her and all that, which brings
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me to just a point that I'd like to make about this, And this
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is one of those areas where this is relevant, where this is important.
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If she gets on a private jet and she flies back for the super Bowl
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and then I guess has to get back on a private jet and go back
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to whatever she's her next show, which I assume is in Asia. Is
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there some hypocrisy at play when it comes to this ourna mental stuff? I
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mean, if we have a person who is a part of the movement that's
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telling us, you know, we got to watch out for the planet.
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We got to get rid of those fossil fuels. We've got to support candidates
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that are trying to tank our economy by blowing up everything to do with energy.
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Can we not? Are we not allowed to call her out for that?
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If she does it now? She hasn't done it yet. I know
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that she I'm sure that she's traveled. I don't think she's flying commercial for
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these tours. I don't blame her, by the way. I don't think
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that she should. I don't think politicians necessarily should be flying commercial all the
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time. Some of them should, some of them more high profile probably should
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not. But if you were making a fuss about fossil fuels and screaming at
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people about how they shouldn't have a gas stove or how they shouldn't drive a
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gas powered car or any of that. I think you probably should, you
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know, take the get on a tug vote and move around. That's the
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best way to do it, you know, just like a steam powered tug
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boat. And you know, she'd never make it back for the super Bowl
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at all, would she have any chance to know she'd maybe make it back
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in time for next year's Super Bowl. So that's kind of the absurdity of
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the world that we're living in right now, is this notion, this idea
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that it's okay for some people to do it and it's not okay for other
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people to do it. Also, on the subject of voting for candidates on
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the left, and I understand that not all job cuts can be blamed on
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the politicians in power, Okay, I want to be clear on that.
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That happens at various points in time. But we're in a weird point in
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our history, something that hopefully none of us ever have to see again,
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something that we hadn't seen before, something hopefully we never see again. Hopefully
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we just have to pray that we never go through this pandemic situation again.
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We have to pray that we never have a situation in place where our country
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just decides it kind of starts guessing on what to do. In a lot
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of ways, we're just going to guess and we're going to try to figure
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it out, and we ultimately have an economy that falls apart. We have
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people that lose jobs, we have jobs that just end, We have some
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jobs that end for a little while, and then one party that's not in
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power decides that they're going to use all of the bad things that happen during
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the pandemic to get into power, and they take advantage of it. That's
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not a new story either. That's something that has happened throughout history. You
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seize that opportunity that's presented there for you. You don't waste a tragedy.
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So, but our economy was in a really bad place coming out of COVID,
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coming out of that election year, and we elected a president who has
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basically effectively been asleep at the wheel, not really doing anything positive to fix
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the problems, in fact doubling down on making them worse. And I understand
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that we're we've been in this period of well, we have to do something
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for the environment and the people that believe that, and they feel like this
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is the prime opportunity to do that, because if they didn't do it now,
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when would they be able to do it. And they've told us we're
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going to all be dead in twenty years and all these things that they just
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keep making up, these numbers that they just arbitrarily throw out that twenty that
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magic number, over and over and over again. So they pounced on it
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and they felt like, we're going to be able to pass This was with
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ease, and we had a couple of senators who stepped in and across the
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arms and said no, no, we're not going to do that. In
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Joe Manchin in Kirsten Cinema, and they, of course got harassed. Mansion
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still gets harassed at times about fossil fuels. Cinema chased around in the bathroom
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inside the Capitol building as people were chasing her through office buildings. No talk
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of any sort of insurrection there. They were just harassing a woman who was
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on the toilet, which seems to me that should have been at least I
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don't know, fifty one percent of the country at the minimum, but it
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did not. It seemed to just be perfect. All's fair in love and
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war, politics, or whatever the mindset was. So we were at a
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position when we needed a serious help in getting our economy moving again. Some
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things were going to get better, and I think Democrats banked on how it
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was going to seem. Hey, jobs came back. Look at all the
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job and a lot of them were jobs that just faded away during the pandemic.
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It wasn't new jobs. They're calling them new jobs, but they weren't
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new jobs. These are just jobs that came back. But a lot of
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jobs never came back. A lot of the jobs just disappeared. They're gone,
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they're never coming back. People that owned businesses, families that own businesses,
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they just lost them. Those don't come back. Some of them maybe
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did. Some of them had to reinvent themselves and find a way to come
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back, but a lot of companies still aren't where they were. I mean,
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twenty nineteen under the Trump administration, we were doing great. Twenty twenty
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is when the wheels came off, and really twenty twenty one not a lot
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of improvement right away, and then things gradually started to get better again.
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So a big company now in ups making an announcement yesterday that it was going
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to cut twelve thousand jobs, and it was basically attributed to softer demand and
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higher union labor costs. And they're basically using the cost cutting measure to save
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the company a billion dollars. So twelve thousand employees, that's about two point
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four percent of the global workforce for the company. Their CEO saying twenty twenty
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three was a unique and difficult year, though through it all, we remained
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focused on controlling what we could control, stayed on strategy, and strengthened our
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foundation for future growth. And she announced that all the remaining employees must return
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to the office five days a week. So just a few things that are
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sort of running a business on this side of not just the pandemic, but
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on this side of what's supposed to be the recovery period post pandemic. So
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I sit there and I ask myself how many of those twelve thousand people voted
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for the wrong guy last time? And I'm not trying to say that they
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should be punished, That's not what I mean. And I just wonder how
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many of them would do it again. And that's One of those questions that
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we're getting in polling questions around the country is how many people are going to
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do this again? How many people are really going to double down on this
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failed administration? How many how many are really willing to say I don't care
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enough about my friends and neighbors to try to bring back some kind of prosperity
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here, I'm doing okay, or the government is going to keep me afloat.
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We just had that with Michelle Obama in that interview right talking about how
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the government is supposed to do things for us. The government does things for
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us. So how many people are really not stepping back and just saying,
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maybe I should at least think about voting the other way, even if I
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don't like the guy, even if I go Orange Man bad. And the
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name of trying to help out other citizens, to try to help out people
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who are middle class and need the help, who are lower middle class and
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need the help, this attempt at our government right now, the party in
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power trying to push those people down out of the middle class completely. You're
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more likely to want the handout if you get pushed out of the middle class,
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right, You're a little more likely maybe you're not quite there, but
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you're getting there. And and that's a especially if you're used to be in
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you know, middle middle class and you get pushed down and you think,
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how am I going to make ends meet? I've bought a house that's for
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somebody that was in a different income bracket before, and things are just different
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now. So I don't know. I just I sit there and I look
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at a story like that, and that's the first thing I thought is,
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we're not we haven't fixed anything yet. You know, our government can say,
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wow, look at all the jobs we made. There's twelve thousand that
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are just poof, They're gone. They're just gone. Are they ever going
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to come back? Is this a company that's ever gonna bring those jobs back
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in some capacity? I don't know. But the reality here is, uh,
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We're We're not done yet, and this is gonna be a big year
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that's going to tell other Americans where you stand on this. We always talk
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about, oh, Republicans do them to do anything to look out for other
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people, They don't support charity, and which isn't true at all. This
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is an opportunity for people to help each other out. And I know you
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may have to hold your nose and vote for somebody that you didn't want to
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vote for. I get that. I was going to use a different analogy
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from The Walking Dead, but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say that in
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case you're eating your cheerios. But the reality here is sometimes you just have
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to pinch your nose and do it. You just have to to try to
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get things back on track. And I hope, I hope that people are
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going to recognize this and realize I mean, that's all we can do,
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right is we can just hope they're not just blindly running into the into the
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All right, I promise I'm not gonna be talking about Taylor Swift the whole
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lead up to it. I hope I'm done with it. I know I'll
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gripe a little bit about it between now and the super Bowl, but especially
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if we get news that she's gonna be burning all that fuel by b and
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forth. But we can start thinking a little bit about some people will be
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doing Super Bowl parties. A new survey found forty percent of people that were
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surveyed said they look forward to attending or hosting a Super Bowl party, even
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though a lot of those people won't spend any time in front of the TV.
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About seventeen percent of those surveys said they'll watch twenty minutes or less of
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the actual game. The survey found that the average viewing time is only about
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twenty nine minutes of gameplay. Nine percent admit that they would not even know
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who was playing before the game was turned on. The halftime show, commercials
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and drinks all more popular with those surveyed than what was happening on the field.
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Thirty percent admit they spend more time in front of the snacks and the
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food than they do in front of the TV. When it's two teams I
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don't care about and there's a side little story to it that I just don't
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want to think about. Yeah, I could definitely see myself spend more time
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worried about snacks. Speaking of Super Bowl snacks, experts say that if you
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do overdo it, coming up on the eleventh for the Super Bowl and it's
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now less than two weeks away, say, don't beat yourself up over A
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lot of people get down on themselves over indulging in junk food. A new
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study from Drexel University found that people who were kinder to themselves after a snacking
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lapse were not only happier, but they also had more self control over the
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next eating and exercise habits afterward. So that's good. It means it's okay.
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I mean, you don't want to have the lapse, but if you
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do have the lapse, the message there is, you know, don't beat
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yourself up over it. I'll be honest. You know, I lost a
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lot of weight several years ago, and one of the things I did to
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lose weight was I was every day, at the end of the day,
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if I had a certain amount of calories left over for my calorie counting,
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I allowed myself to have like a half a cup of ice cream at the
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end of the day. And it worked because I was, you know,
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keeping that surplus of calories where I could afford to do that, and that
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meant I didn't constantly crave something sweet all the time and just go crazy.
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And it was great. And I remember people were, you know, how
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are you losing your weight? And I just told him I'm eating less and
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I'm exercising more. And then some I would even tell them I didn't want
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to. You know, a few people were like what, but you know,
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I'd say, hey, I have a little ice cream at night.
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And I remember one guy telling me, man, you should switch over and
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eat some almonds instead, And I thought, why would I eat five almonds
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and have more calorie intake. I mean, I appreciate what he's saying.
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Almonds are healthier for you, but they're a high calorie snack. But anyway,
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I just, yeah, don't beat yourself up if you do. You
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know, the trick is you don't overdo it too much. That's the idea.
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The the guy Philippe Petite, who in nineteen seventy four decided he was
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a stunt guy that would do tightrope walking, and he decided in nineteen seventy
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four that he was going to walk across a wire stretched between the World Trade
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Center towers that were new then. Is coming back to and this was you
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know, fifty years ago. Well, this guy's going back to New York
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for an encore. This time. He's now seventy four a little lower risk.
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He's walking six hundred and one feet across the nave of the massive cathedral
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of Saint John the Divine, about one hundred and seventy seven feet in the
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air. He made that walk before, ended up getting arrested before the Reverend
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James Parks Morton took the handcuffs off and gave him a title he still holds
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proudly Artist in residence. He'll make that walk coming up tomorrow six pm.
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Yeah, it's kicking off the month of February. Joseph Gordon Levitt was in
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the movie about that guy. It was really really good. I liked it
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a lot. It'll make you a little bit dizzy. You might have to
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look away from the screen a few times, but anyway, it's really good.
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Japan have created a robot that uses
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lab grown muscle tissue. It's a two legged robot and it's made to mimic
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human movement and can walk in turn. It moves slowly now, but they
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say research on biohybrid robots, which are a fusion of biology and mechanics,
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is attracting attention as a new field of robotics featuring a biological function. The
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author of the study says, using muscle as actuators allows us to build a
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compact robot and achieve efficient, silent movements with a soft touch. Pretty cool,
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also kind of terrifying. So just think about that, because the reality
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here is once we start getting humanoid androids, that's when you know, that's
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when it becomes a Will Smith movie. You know. All right, that'll
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