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RIGO Was Clinton, DOGE Is Trump · 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: Thursday morning, twenty seventh day of February. I'm Wes, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining me winding down Black History Month. And I
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  Speaker 2: bring it up because it's come up as a talking
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  Speaker 2: point in the media in the last few days. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's a talking point in general. They talk about it
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  Speaker 2: in schools, they talk about it in a number of areas.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't like coming out of nowhere. But what was
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  Speaker 2: interesting I thought was that there were a number of
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  Speaker 2: people that were on social media upset this week about
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  Speaker 2: Joy Reid's show being canceled during Black History Month, as
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  Speaker 2: if there's some sort of a rule against canceling a
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  Speaker 2: TV show that had poor ratings and bad content, just
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  Speaker 2: bad content because it was Black History Month. Like that's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to save her for another week. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: just give her until next week so that she can
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, I don't know what the
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  Speaker 2: expectation is there, but it was an interesting way, an
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  Speaker 2: interesting way to spend it. I mean, like that was
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  Speaker 2: going to be the move that was going to make MSNBC.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to make the universal make a change in
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  Speaker 2: the decision on how they wanted to handle It's it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty absurd. There has also been layoffs because of one
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  Speaker 2: of the other shows, and of course she's got a staff.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to be clear when I said earlier
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  Speaker 2: in the week, I feel badly when people lose their jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Just know that she's not the only one that lost
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  Speaker 2: her job in all of this. There's a staff that
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  Speaker 2: works for her. Several people were let go in the
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  Speaker 2: process of all of this and to further that, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why I say, and you could say, well, they
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  Speaker 2: work for her, I know people that work on other
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  Speaker 2: shows on other networks that don't share the views of
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  Speaker 2: the host or the network in general where they work.
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  Speaker 2: They just go and do their job. That's what they're
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  Speaker 2: paid to do. And so you can't just lump them
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  Speaker 2: all together. I know you could say, well, but they're
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  Speaker 2: helping and their working, but they're doing their job and
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  Speaker 2: if anything, maybe they're the ones that are helping have
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  Speaker 2: some good news stories come out on those networks. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so another show that was canceled the Alex Wagner Show,
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  Speaker 2: And let's say, I guess that was a show when
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  Speaker 2: Rachel Maddow was out at one point or was doing
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  Speaker 2: fewer shows or whatever it was. So she's there to
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  Speaker 2: cover the first hundred days. I guess that show was canceled,
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  Speaker 2: so some of that shared staff has been let go.
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  Speaker 2: In Rachel Maddow's show, she says, we'll be impacted by
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  Speaker 2: all of it, and she said some very negative things
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  Speaker 2: about MSNBC about the fact that that they, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're letting all these people go, and especially joy Read
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  Speaker 2: and those sorts of things. So now I guess it
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  Speaker 2: would be comically amusing and it would maybe tell us
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  Speaker 2: some story about MSNBC if you really are upset about
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  Speaker 2: the Black History Month thing enjoy Read, if they waited
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  Speaker 2: until June Pride Month and then fired Rachel Mattow, that
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  Speaker 2: would sort of I mean, then you could say something's up,
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  Speaker 2: there's something fishy going on and we're not appreciating it. Like,
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  Speaker 2: if that's where you wanted to go with it, and
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  Speaker 2: that was the case and that's what happened, then maybe
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  Speaker 2: you've got a justified complaint, You've got a justified concern.
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  Speaker 2: I guess, Hey, yesterday we got our first cabinet meeting
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  Speaker 2: for the new Trump presidency. It was good to see
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  Speaker 2: all of the staff there, almost said King's men, but
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  Speaker 2: that's not all of the staff were there. They were
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  Speaker 2: They had took some questions from press. It was a
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  Speaker 2: long kind of introduction to the whole process. Elon Musk
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  Speaker 2: was there, gave an update on some of the death
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  Speaker 2: threats and things that he's received because of the work
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  Speaker 2: that he's been doing with heading up DOGE. I wonder
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  Speaker 2: if if you think back to the Clinton administration when
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  Speaker 2: I think al Gore was the one that was in
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  Speaker 2: charge of REGO, which was the Clinton administration's version of DOGE.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't a completely brand new idea, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: You've had presidencies in the past where they've said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're spending too much, we need to cut and get
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  Speaker 2: this under control. People forget that. It's very quick quickly
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  Speaker 2: we forget certain things that aren't convenient to the cause.
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  Speaker 2: So I wonder if al Gore got death threats for
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  Speaker 2: working when this REGO, you know, Reinventing Government or whatever
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  Speaker 2: it was called. Anyway, So it Musk gave an update,
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  Speaker 2: talked about some of the death threats. The President took
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  Speaker 2: a few questions, managed to you know, have a few
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  Speaker 2: people in the room, got some questions. They talked a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about Ukraine, they talked a little bit about Russia.
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  Speaker 2: They talked about a number of issues that the administration
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  Speaker 2: is certainly looking at and moving forward. They talked about
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  Speaker 2: this you know, rare Earth deal that's going to take place.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently Zelensky is coming on Friday, just an observation. And
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  Speaker 2: I understand there's people that all think they're experts on
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  Speaker 2: all this and they get the rundown. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if Zelensky is, I mean, I remember when this war
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  Speaker 2: started and they had Zelensky, you know, buried like in
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  Speaker 2: a bunker and he was hiding, and understandably they were
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot going on, and uh, now he's
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  Speaker 2: just kind of traveling around the world. Like everybody knows
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  Speaker 2: where he's going to be. They know he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be in New York. They know he's going to uh sorry,
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  Speaker 2: not New York. I think he did some media New
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  Speaker 2: York not too long ago. But they knew to talk
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  Speaker 2: shows and things. They know he's gonna be in DC,
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  Speaker 2: and they know that he's going to be traveling. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: he'll go into New York on his way to DC,
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  Speaker 2: but they know that's he's traveling and moving around. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I can't have an election. I don't know anyway. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not an expert. I'm just asking a question. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that was the question that Trump had when he said, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you become a dictator when you don't hold elections. People
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  Speaker 2: said that Trump was gonna not hold elections during COVID,
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  Speaker 2: he was going to shut him down, declare a state
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  Speaker 2: of emergency, and be a dictator. And I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's an interesting point to make. And all of that.
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  Speaker 2: Another issue that's come up here as we're starting to
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  Speaker 2: they're digging into all these different departments and they're starting
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  Speaker 2: to Obviously the email we talked about that yesterday that
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  Speaker 2: was sent out by Musk and Doge basically telling people
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  Speaker 2: just respond to the email. We want to know that
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  Speaker 2: there's a living, breathing human being that is receiving these
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  Speaker 2: emails and capable of responding to them and giving some
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  Speaker 2: accountability for work or whatever they're doing. And then another
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  Speaker 2: one is there's an ethics complaint that has been brought about.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get this full. This is a senator
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  Speaker 2: White House, and they're discussing how deeply this should be investigated.
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  Speaker 2: So basically, this is one of those situations where white
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  Speaker 2: House voted for some money to go to an organization
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  Speaker 2: where his wife works, where his wife serves, I guess
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  Speaker 2: runs the thing, president of the consulting firm Ocean Walks LLC.
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  Speaker 2: Been there since twenty seventeen, formerly a employee of Ocean
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  Speaker 2: Conservancy as a senior policy advisor starting in eight. So
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  Speaker 2: from eight until present, I guess his wife working there,
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  Speaker 2: and I guess directly benefits from these grants and this
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  Speaker 2: money going there. So Ocean Conservancy received more than fourteen
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  Speaker 2: point two million in federal grants and so eight with
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  Speaker 2: her there, that's per USA spending dot gov so uh
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  Speaker 2: five point two million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
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  Speaker 2: Administration noah, and for beach cleanup five point two million
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  Speaker 2: for that one point seven million Environmental Protection Agency THEPA
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  Speaker 2: also with beach cleanup. So yeah, that's certainly not a
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  Speaker 2: conflict of interest. Nothing to see here, nothing at all
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  Speaker 2: to see here. There's nothing for anyone to be concerned about.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody should just go on about their business because a
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  Speaker 2: Democrat senator certainly is not directly benefiting from sending money
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  Speaker 2: to this organization where his wife works and probably takes
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  Speaker 2: home a sizable portion of that money as some sort
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  Speaker 2: of fee for I don't know, walking beaches and picking
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  Speaker 2: up trash. You got to get those plastic straws so
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  Speaker 2: they don't kill the squirrel the turtles. They don't kill
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  Speaker 2: the turtles. Literally just read the word squirrel anyway, the turtles.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta be out there getting the straws. We're back
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  Speaker 2: to paper straws though. Trump's taking care of all of that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, certainly nothing for anyone to be concerned about,
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  Speaker 2: nothing for anyone to see. There's nothing for anybody to
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  Speaker 2: find fishy about this whole situation. We are such a
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  Speaker 2: I mean, both sides guilty of the hypocrisy sometimes of going, well,
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  Speaker 2: my side does this, so it's okay, and that side
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  Speaker 2: did it and it was bad. But this is getting
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  Speaker 2: really out of hand with the you know, it's just bad.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm all for this moving forward, getting to a
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  Speaker 2: place where if they can really save us a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money, let's, you know, put some money down on
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  Speaker 2: the debt. I guess they want to try to give
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  Speaker 2: taxpayers a little bit of money back. I think there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people that are kind of going, hey, cool.
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  Speaker 2: I like it, and it's like, but you know, you
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  Speaker 2: got to pay taxes before you get it back. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that people understand that if you didn't pay taxes,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that you should be getting any of
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  Speaker 2: this back. But I don't know how they're going to
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  Speaker 2: handle that part of it either. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: the full plan is. I know a portion of it,
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  Speaker 2: and they said towards the debt portion of it maybe
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  Speaker 2: coming back to folks, and that's not necessarily a bad thing,
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  Speaker 2: especially if it's going to help stimulate the economy and
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  Speaker 2: maybe help with you know, working towards maybe getting prices
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  Speaker 2: lower or whatever it is. I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what the long term plan is. But bottom line
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  Speaker 2: is the fact that there's people saying, you know, doge bad.
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  Speaker 2: But when the Clinton administration did it, they basically, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're very much pro getting the spending in order. So
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  Speaker 2: one quick thing too, I know here in the Chattahoochee Valley,
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  Speaker 2: we've certainly all know of Tommy Tubberville, now the senator,
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  Speaker 2: formerly Auburn's head football coach at the university, and he,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, basically like a regional guy for
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  Speaker 2: us where we are anyway, He's made some comments about
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  Speaker 2: the governor Maine, basically calling her the A word, the
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  Speaker 2: old a double dollar sign word. Basically a quote says
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  Speaker 2: the governor main being a total backside to be or
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  Speaker 2: donkey to be honest with you to the President of
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  Speaker 2: United States, when he's already said this is not going
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  Speaker 2: to happen. This is in reference to the conversation from
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the week. We were talking about Maine's governor
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  Speaker 2: saying that they were going to stand up to the
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  Speaker 2: President and take him to court over trans athletes. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of those issues, as we discussed. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: seem to be going away, and I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: it's not going away. The eighty percent of the American
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  Speaker 2: public apparently says it's time for it to go away.
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  Speaker 2: Let's put it to bed, let's move on. But obviously
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  Speaker 2: you got a couple of states digging in. And I
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  Speaker 2: bring it up now not just because Tommy Tuberville's quote,
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  Speaker 2: but because Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, now says that
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  Speaker 2: she's looking into Minnesota, California, and Maine, three states that
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  Speaker 2: apparently that are pledging to stand up to this executive
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  Speaker 2: order and keep biological men out of women sports. It's
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  Speaker 2: such a losing cause for a political party. You can
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  Speaker 2: sit here all day if you want to make your
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  Speaker 2: case that you're just trying to stand up for a
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  Speaker 2: very small group of people that doesn't have anyone standing
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  Speaker 2: up for them. If that's what you if you think, Look,
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  Speaker 2: these are underrepresented people and I want to stand up
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  Speaker 2: for them. There's a nobility to that, Okay, if that's
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  Speaker 2: what you think. The problem is, And we talked about
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  Speaker 2: this already this week and many other times. The problem
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  Speaker 2: is this is one of those areas where standing up
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  Speaker 2: for a very small group of people is going to
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  Speaker 2: directly hurt a very large number of people in a
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  Speaker 2: very very potentially big way for them. And when we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about women's sports, and we're talking about girls in
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  Speaker 2: sports and they're not having the opportunity to compete at
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  Speaker 2: the highest levels in their particular sport because someone is
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  Speaker 2: there in some cases to obstruct them, or someone could
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  Speaker 2: potentially be there to obstruct them. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the thing. And we heard from the NCUBA, the head
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  Speaker 2: of the nc double A, when he said, well, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about a very small number of athletes. That's a
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  Speaker 2: great point. It is a very small number of athletes.
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  Speaker 2: But what happens if you put the kind of commitment
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  Speaker 2: in You're four years old and you decide, I want
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  Speaker 2: to be a swimmer and I want to you know,
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  Speaker 2: grow up and I want to be the best swimmer
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  Speaker 2: in the world. And you put in the work, you
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  Speaker 2: hit the pool, you're in there. You know, you hear
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  Speaker 2: about these kids that are I mean, they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: do this for the Olympics or they're trying to do
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  Speaker 2: this for college. And they're in the pool seven days
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  Speaker 2: a week, sometimes twice a day, and they're just swimming.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing their thing, they're doing their sport, and they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to be the best at it. And suddenly the
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  Speaker 2: six seven, eight to you know, twelve years old and
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  Speaker 2: they're competing and they're in the in the pool and
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  Speaker 2: they're competing and they're working hard. Then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: they get to high school, they're competing at a higher
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  Speaker 2: level and uh, you know, potentially going to college or
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  Speaker 2: Olympics or whatever is in their future. But you're putting
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  Speaker 2: in years of work, you're putting in you know, a
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  Speaker 2: decade of work, just to find out. Oh, I'm the
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  Speaker 2: one that drew the straw that's going to have to
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  Speaker 2: compete against the biological man. I'm going to be the
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  Speaker 2: one who's not going to have the opportunity to be
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  Speaker 2: the national champion. I'm going to be the one who
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  Speaker 2: misses out on an opportunity to be the state champion.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be the one that misses out on
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to compete at this next level. And it's
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  Speaker 2: not looking ahead and realizing that those people need to
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  Speaker 2: be taken care of. It's already happened to others hat
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  Speaker 2: Riley Gaines and others that have already had their opportunities
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  Speaker 2: pushed aside. So how many more could this happen to?
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  Speaker 2: And how many more should be able to get in
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  Speaker 2: the pool at four years old and know that their
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  Speaker 2: future competing at that level should be or will be protected,
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  Speaker 2: because it's just the fair and right thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: Well wonder no more. Apparently science knows everything. A new
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  Speaker 2: study of more than two thousand couples revealed that there
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: are basically two types, those who ignore issues in hopes
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: that they'll go away, and those who tackle them head on.
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  Speaker 2: You can probably guess which couples stay together over the
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: long haul. Relationship expert Dugdall saying that the happiest couple's
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: long term aren't the ones who have the fewest problems.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: It's the ones that address their problems the quickest. It
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: might be tough in the moment, but having a hard
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: conversation will save your relationship in the long run. I mean,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I realize that there's a science to this, but this
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: is just a basic couples counseling, right. I don't know
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: how much this is really some sort of a deep
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: scientific thing. But hey, and it's not to say that
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: psychology or counseling there's not a science to it. But
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: whipping these up in test tubes or anything's all I'm saying. So,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: if you want to live longer, have more friends. That's
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: what A new study says that shorter life spans might
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: have something to do with the fact that we don't
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: have as many friends as people did in previous generations.
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  Speaker 2: Back in nineteen ninety, almost half of high school graduates
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  Speaker 2: forty nine percent had at least six close friends. Fast
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: forward to now, and that number has dropped to just
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: seventeen percent. College graduates saw a similar trend, though not
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: as steep. In nineteen ninety, only two percent of college
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: educated folks and three percent of high school grads reported
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: having zero close friends, but by twenty twenty four, those
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: numbers jumped to ten percent for college grads and twenty
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: six percent for high school only grads. According to the
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Survey Center of American Life, sixty percent of Americans report
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: at least some depression due to loneliness. Some don't seem
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: to care. Last year, one study found a full twenty
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: five percent of young adults believe that AI has the
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: potential to replace real life romantic relationships. If it can
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: replace romantic relationships, then it can replace friendships. So I
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: think maybe that should have been the starting point for
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: that part of the conversation. But yeah, you know, I
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, we've seen the movies. We do
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: know that. I mean, there is some potential for that
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: to be a replacement someone, at least for that interaction
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  Speaker 2: in that company, But I'm not so sure that it
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: can completely replace. Eventually, maybe we'll get there. But the
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: fact that they're saying eventually AI can replace those things,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: that doesn't specifically mean that it's safe to be without
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: friends now, right, all right? How about this one? According
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: to this is going on TikTok, there's a twenty twenty
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: five Bingo card and basically people have been making Bengo
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: cards for the year, and they say, you and your
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: friends can sit down and make your Bingo card for
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: the year with all the things that you hope that
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: you will check off. Now we're almost done with February,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: so you would basically be starting it in March if
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: you were doing it. But they say partying on a boat,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: taking a long nap, going to a concert of your
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: favorite artists, those sorts of things. Yeah, that could be fun.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: That sounds like it's a better deal than you know,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: having a resolution. That's a much more like it's doing
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: a positive thing and it's trying to get some things
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: maybe checked off your list, maybe bucket list items and
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: things like that. It sounds like a fun way to
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: do it. Scientists have discovered that natural hydrogen found deep
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: below the Earth's surface could be a game changer for
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: green energy. Scientists identified mountain ranges with potential hots as
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: being potential hotspots for the hydrogen and now figuring out
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: ways of drilling down there and getting the stuff out
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: of the ground. Once it's captured, the hydrogen can of
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: course be burned to create pollution free energy. Interesting, how
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: much is the grant that they need to dig it up?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: That's what I go to anytime we start screaming the
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: word greenness and that I just want to know how
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: much is that going to cost me. Wendy's restaurant chain
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: shaking things up introducing AI powered ordering at its drive thrus.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: People apparently not happy about it. The new system is
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: called fresh ai and will take orders add up to
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: six hundred locations by the end of the year. I
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: think we talked about this a while, like maybe last year,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: that this was coming. While company leaders are optimistic about
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the change, many customers got on the internet and sounded off.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: They're not too happy about it, threatening to go elsewhere
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: with their fast food dollars. I just want to know
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: how it's AI powered. I mean, if it sees like
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: a picture of you and they go, oh, this guy's
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: gonna want two burgers. You know, that would upset me.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, they could probably look at me and say,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I bet this guy could eat two burgers, and I
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: probably could. But that doesn't mean that I am. So
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: that would be a reason to be upset by it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I guess all right. That'll do it for this Thursday
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