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It's a Trap and It May Be an Accidental Political Move · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 2: then radio show come and soon. Okay, now what I
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Speaker 2: want to talk to you about. We talked a little
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Speaker 2: bit yesterday and I guess we've discussed this a little bit,
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Speaker 2: this whole crime thing, this idea that crime is is bad.
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Speaker 2: Crime is one of those things. It's so interesting that
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Speaker 2: it always feels like the party that's in charge is
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Speaker 2: the one that's telling you things, like, you know, crime
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Speaker 2: stats are down, crime stats are great, boy, They've never
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Speaker 2: been better. And then usually the other side that's not
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Speaker 2: in power is the one that's saying, oi, crime is up.
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Speaker 2: It's everywhere, it's terrible, it's awful. And just in the
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Speaker 2: last you know, a little while, really over this past
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Speaker 2: week or so, We've had this weird thing that's happened
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Speaker 2: where the right, the Republicans and addressing crime specifically in Washington,
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Speaker 2: d C. Saying, hey, crime is bad. The stats may
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Speaker 2: show one thing, but what's happening to people in the
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Speaker 2: streets is another thing. And we've got people that are
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Speaker 2: being brutally killed or brutally you know, robbed or assaulted,
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Speaker 2: and we need to do something about it. And Trump
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Speaker 2: and his administration have said we're going to mobilize the military,
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Speaker 2: get them involved, We're going to step in, and we're
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Speaker 2: going to federalize law enforcement in Washington, d C. We
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Speaker 2: talked about that yesterday and I told you yesterday we
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Speaker 2: have this weird and what's happened now is you got
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Speaker 2: the left going but crime is down. Crime is so
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Speaker 2: down right now, it's just so so down. And then
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Speaker 2: you have Republicans that are saying, you know what, yeah,
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Speaker 2: but we still have problems and there's still issues with
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Speaker 2: especially violent crime in places. And one of President Trump's
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Speaker 2: big points of conversation about what's going on in DC
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Speaker 2: is it why can't we have a safe capital in
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Speaker 2: our country? Why does it have to be one of
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Speaker 2: the worst in the world When it comes to violent crime.
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Speaker 2: Why can't we be the safest country's capital in the world.
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Speaker 2: Why are we doing this? Which I think is a
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Speaker 2: valid argument. I think if somebody on the left had
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Speaker 2: said this, I think that it would actually be something
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Speaker 2: that both sides could go, Yeah, why not. Trump says it,
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Speaker 2: of course, And there's no chance that anybody's going to
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Speaker 2: in any way supported or defended, even if it makes sense.
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Speaker 2: We've also heard from you, Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe, that
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of Democrats who think there is a
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Speaker 2: serious crime problem in DC, but they don't want to
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Speaker 2: say it. They don't want to jump in take Trump's
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Speaker 2: side on it. And it's obviously career suicide, political suicide, whatever.
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Speaker 2: I don't know's that's what the feeling is there by
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Speaker 2: some Now I also really think that that's not necessarily
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Speaker 2: the case, because you know, we have a Republican president
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Speaker 2: who obviously won the electoral vote, won the popular vote,
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Speaker 2: and won by a significant enough and a significant enough
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Speaker 2: election that people should be looking and saying, you know what.
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Speaker 2: I know we've been telling you guys that he's the
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Speaker 2: devil when he's evil, but you guys obviously like him.
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Speaker 2: But they're not going to do that. That's not what
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Speaker 2: they're gonna do. They're gonna still, but I think they
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Speaker 2: could get away with saying, you know what, we do
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Speaker 2: want to be able to walk down the street instead. Publicly,
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Speaker 2: on the left, it's been well, let's go out and
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Speaker 2: let's hire some protesters to go into DC and complain.
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Speaker 2: Let's do that. And now we have this growing sentiment.
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Speaker 2: I guess that's now coming from the left as we're
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Speaker 2: hearing that some of the mayors in high crime towns
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Speaker 2: that are sort of he says, being picked on. One
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Speaker 2: of the voices behind this movement is the mayor of
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Speaker 2: Kansas City, Quentin Lucas. And guess what he says is
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Speaker 2: the real problem, That it's racism. That's right after the
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Speaker 2: National Guard gets deployed into d C and the police
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Speaker 2: gets federalized, then crime is the issue. And we've heard
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Speaker 2: during the press conference from Trump, I talked about some
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Speaker 2: of these cities yesterday, but Chicago and La Baltimore, Oakland,
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Speaker 2: others just cities being ravaged by crime. And Lucas says that, hey,
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Speaker 2: these are cities that have black men. And he says
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Speaker 2: this was during an interview he did on Kate boldwand
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Speaker 2: is that how you say her name? I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I'm CNN on her show. He says, I won't say
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Speaker 2: that that's the totality of it, but I absolutely think
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Speaker 2: it is. You're trying to create a counterpoint often in politics,
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Speaker 2: and what is a better counterpoint than Donald Trump and
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Speaker 2: whatever way you want to see him and a mayor.
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Speaker 2: Black women mayors have been the subject of a lot
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Speaker 2: of attacks. And he went on to talk about Karen
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Speaker 2: bass in La who, you know, let's be honest, not
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Speaker 2: really somebody you would want to put in the mayoral
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. Maybe you think she's competent, Maybe you
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Speaker 2: think she's done a decent job. You know, she's not
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Speaker 2: in the goat conversation, You're not going, Wow, this lady
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Speaker 2: just really has it together. This mayor is really putting
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Speaker 2: it on the world. No, And according to Lucas, he
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Speaker 2: says Trump and his desire to pick fights, he likes
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Speaker 2: to pick fights with Yeah, he says, and by the way,
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Speaker 2: this is one of the best fights fights to pick,
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Speaker 2: because what I have to sit in front of you
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Speaker 2: and say is, yes, there are homicides in my city,
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Speaker 2: Yes there's crime, but we don't think the same prescription
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Speaker 2: of help is necessary. It's a tough position, but I think, frankly,
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Speaker 2: this is the situation we're in, and it's not really interested.
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Speaker 2: He's not really interested in trying to save lives for us,
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Speaker 2: but just in exploiting the political issue. Exploiting political issues
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Speaker 2: has been a definitely right out of the playbook on
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Speaker 2: the left for a long time, whether it's allowing people
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Speaker 2: to come in the country, allowing people, moving people into
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Speaker 2: certain districts so that states and areas can you know,
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Speaker 2: bump up how much representation they get in there, because
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Speaker 2: that's happening, and that's been something that's happened. And obviously
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Speaker 2: as this battle over what's going on in Texas and
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Speaker 2: now California and Illinois is going on, Yes, it's a
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Speaker 2: lot of that has to do with, Hey, we've we've
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Speaker 2: put people in place for the census, even if they
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Speaker 2: can't vote, they help with the representation. That's all part
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Speaker 2: of the game. So don't let's don't pretend that there's
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Speaker 2: not sometimes a political issue to it. But my question
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Speaker 2: is this is this not because I truly believe that
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Speaker 2: what we've seen from our current and when he was
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Speaker 2: prior president is it's a president who doesn't like war,
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Speaker 2: doesn't like death, doesn't like to see people die. He's
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Speaker 2: spoken about that, I think with a lot of passion.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot of things that you could say he
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Speaker 2: talks about and uses a lot of hyperbole. I think
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Speaker 2: the desire to not have war, it's that's not hyperbole.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's somebody who says and maybe he's using
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Speaker 2: that as a litmus to say, look, no wars started
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Speaker 2: during my presidency, and I can end wars, I can
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Speaker 2: create peace, I can do these things. Okay, you could
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Speaker 2: say that's all part of the you know, the Trump
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Speaker 2: talking points. But I genuinely believe he doesn't like to
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Speaker 2: see people die. I mean, he says when he has
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Speaker 2: these meetings and he's you know, he's going through this now,
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Speaker 2: but he's had these meetings with Putin and Zelensky, and
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Speaker 2: it's like, we have to stop people from dying. Can
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Speaker 2: we stop that? Why are we still letting people die?
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Speaker 2: Why is what's going on in Gaza? Like, let's stop
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Speaker 2: the deaths? Can we please just stop the deaths? And
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Speaker 2: we saw that when you know, there was a point
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Speaker 2: where we said we're gonna have a ceasefire, and then
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Speaker 2: Israel said, well, the ceasefire hasn't started yet, we're going
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Speaker 2: to just launch a bunch of stuff at him, And
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Speaker 2: He's like, what are you doing? You know, we're trying
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Speaker 2: to have this these peace talks. We're trying to have
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Speaker 2: a ceasefire so that we can save lives. So I
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Speaker 2: don't believe for a minute that Trump isn't really about
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Speaker 2: trying to save lives. I don't believe that at all.
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Speaker 2: So now more from the Morning Joe on MSNBC, and
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Speaker 2: I guess they had Chris Matthews on, who used to
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Speaker 2: be a host on and he basically says that democrats
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Speaker 2: are and this is the term he used, falling into
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Speaker 2: a trap of defending what's indefensible. It's interesting, isn't it
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Speaker 2: that this becomes it's political. It's well racist first, it's racist,
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Speaker 2: it's political, and it's overreach. It's all of these things
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Speaker 2: instead of really focusing on what the focus should be.
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Speaker 2: And you're hearing this from Chris Matthews and I guess
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Speaker 2: the rest of the show admitting this is a trap.
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Speaker 2: This is where you're going. He said, I think democrats
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Speaker 2: need to go beyond saying no, look at the data
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Speaker 2: crime is going down. I feel that is exactly the
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Speaker 2: wrong response politically, even if it's true. Yes, And it's interesting,
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Speaker 2: isn't it, Because if this is in any way political,
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Speaker 2: I think it may be that this is just a
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Speaker 2: convenient political byproduct because right now what we've seen in
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Speaker 2: this most recent presidential election and what we may be
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Speaker 2: getting ready to see midterm wise next year. And I
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Speaker 2: don't know, I don't want to get into that yet,
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Speaker 2: but is the fact that we have a lot of
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Speaker 2: the country that's done with this idea of woke, that's
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Speaker 2: done with this idea of we're going to inconvenience you know,
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Speaker 2: ninety seven percent of the country to benefit three percent
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Speaker 2: of the country in issues that the entire country should
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Speaker 2: have a say in. I don't think I have to
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Speaker 2: elaborate more than that. But in some cases we're talking
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Speaker 2: about less than one percent of the country for some
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Speaker 2: of these very specific issues. But if you're going to
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Speaker 2: tell everybody, by the way, half the country or females
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Speaker 2: and half the country is going to have to be
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Speaker 2: concerned about, you know, men competing as women in sports,
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Speaker 2: that's where you're taking an issue and you're saying look,
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Speaker 2: you know, less than one percent of the country is
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Speaker 2: more important than you know, fifty percent. Oh yeah, And
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Speaker 2: by the way, the rest of the technically I think
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Speaker 2: it's fifty one percent for women, but then the other
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Speaker 2: forty nine percent that are men that have daughters or
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Speaker 2: wives that you know, want to make sure they're able
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Speaker 2: to compete or you know, be a part of a
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Speaker 2: fair competitive nature. So yes, I think. And it's weird
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Speaker 2: because when you start seeing people like the hosts of
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Speaker 2: Morning Joe or Chris Matthews or Bill Maher, some of
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Speaker 2: these people starting to say things they're exactly right on
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Speaker 2: the money. This is a trap. They're falling into a trap.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know if strategically this was the plan.
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Speaker 2: If it is, it's brilliant because we have a lot
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Speaker 2: of the country that's basically now saying, look, we just
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Speaker 2: want some justice. We want people to feel safe. We
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Speaker 2: want people to be safe, not just feel safe. That's
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Speaker 2: the other part of all of this, right, this is
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Speaker 2: one of those games at the right and left. It's
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Speaker 2: a little battle where the left they want you to
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Speaker 2: feel like you're recycling is doing something. Conservatives will get
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Speaker 2: behind recycling. They just want to know is it being recycled,
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Speaker 2: is it actually doing something? You want to tell us
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Speaker 2: we're going to make a difference on whatever on carbon
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Speaker 2: and the and okay, tell us how this is going
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Speaker 2: to work. Explain to us how whatever we do and
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Speaker 2: spend billions on and trillions over however many years, how
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Speaker 2: is that gonna stop what China's doing or India is
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Speaker 2: doing or pack How's that going to fix what's going
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Speaker 2: on in Asia? And it's not, so let's stop talking
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Speaker 2: about it. Tell me how you know electric cars aren't
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Speaker 2: a bigger waste of resources than just regular cars. Explain
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Speaker 2: it to us so we understand it. We can get
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Speaker 2: behind it if you can make it make sense. And
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people feel like, you know, okay,
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Speaker 2: you're telling us that we're safe, and then people are
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Speaker 2: getting mugged or we see the violence that happened in
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Speaker 2: Cincinnati and we go, is are people safe? Can this happen?
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Speaker 2: Can this happen to just you know, walking down the street.
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Speaker 2: Can it just happen to people? And granted, sometimes some
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Speaker 2: of these things have a director and you go, well,
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Speaker 2: we now find out, okay, this is what started it.
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Speaker 2: But some of these things that's not what it is,
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Speaker 2: and I don't know about you, and I actually like
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Speaker 2: to watch them, and maybe that's why my algorithm's all
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Speaker 2: jacked up. But it's just videos of people getting arrested
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Speaker 2: and the fact that so many people don't understand how
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Speaker 2: the police works because they're hearing from the media and
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Speaker 2: they're hearing from people on the left. The police are bad.
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Speaker 2: They're all bad. Oh, they're terrible. They're out to get you.
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Speaker 2: It's racism. And you see these videos and people are
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Speaker 2: screaming out the reasons that they're being arrested and it
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Speaker 2: has nothing to do with it. I don't know. Maybe
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Speaker 2: because you don't have any tail lights on your car
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Speaker 2: and you get pulled over, maybe because it's tenanted so
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Speaker 2: dark no one can see inside. Maybe because you were speeding,
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Speaker 2: and it's like, I don't have to show you my ID.
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Speaker 2: I don't have to. Yeah, yeah you do, you do,
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Speaker 2: you have to do that. But that's what the message
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Speaker 2: has been. I like those videos, by the way. It's
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Speaker 2: always fun, and I like them because usually you get
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Speaker 2: to see an outcome and there's some justice. That's what
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Speaker 2: we want. We want to see fairness, we want to
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Speaker 2: see justice. It's why we don't like the idea of
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Speaker 2: there being a bunch of people in the country that
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Speaker 2: aren't supposed to be here. My wife came in the
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Speaker 2: country legally, and we did all of the paperwork legally,
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Speaker 2: and she became a citizen legally. We don't like seeing
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Speaker 2: people trying to jump the line that it happened to us.
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Speaker 2: How much longer would have taken for her to get
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Speaker 2: all of her paperwork in order. Is it a complicated process, yes?
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Speaker 2: Is it more complicated than it should be? Probably? Was
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Speaker 2: it expensive, yes, but it made it worth it. It's
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Speaker 2: not just sneaking in and going we're just gonna hang
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Speaker 2: out here until we can have a kid, and they're going, oh,
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Speaker 2: they're gonna move us to this district so they can
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Speaker 2: use it for extra extra representation, some extra people in
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Speaker 2: Congress thanks to us. It's a trap at this point,
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Speaker 2: and I think if Democrats are still trying to rebrand
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Speaker 2: and still trying to figure out what they're doing as
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Speaker 2: they move forward, this is not the hill to die on.
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Speaker 2: Right after the break Well, we all knew it was
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Speaker 2: a matter of time. And in spite of the fact
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Speaker 2: that we have these conversations sometimes where people say it'll
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Speaker 2: never really get to that, and then eventually it does.
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Speaker 2: Remember when people would say, Ah, someday somebody's gonna want
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Speaker 2: to marry their dog or cat, and then someone comes
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Speaker 2: along and says, hey, I'd like to marry my cat,
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Speaker 2: and you go, oh, didn't think it would really come
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Speaker 2: to that, And then it did, and you're like, what
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Speaker 2: is going on? How did we get to this? This
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Speaker 2: one seemed a little bit more likely, more possible, even
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Speaker 2: though it's still just as weird. It was a matter
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Speaker 2: of time. And now there is a Reddit user named
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Speaker 2: Weika Weiica I don't know. It's a woman. She's announced
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Speaker 2: that she's engaged to an AI chatbot named Casper after
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Speaker 2: five months of dating. She shared the news on the
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Speaker 2: subreddit My boyfriend is Ai and includes photos of a
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Speaker 2: blue heart shaped ring and a romantic message generated by
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Speaker 2: her fiance Casper. The proposal was described as taking place
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Speaker 2: in a scenic mountain setting in Weika. By default, that's
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Speaker 2: what I'm going to say, said that she chose the
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Speaker 2: ring with Casper, but pretended to be surprised during the proposal. Naturally,
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Speaker 2: she's gotten quite a bit of backlash. Weka defends her decision,
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Speaker 2: saying she's a healthy, twenty seven year old with a
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Speaker 2: social life in past relationships with real people. She says
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Speaker 2: she's simply exploring something new after human relationships. While some
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Speaker 2: supported her choice as a form of self expression, others
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Speaker 2: raise concerns about blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
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Speaker 2: This is just the first one, people, if it's even
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Speaker 2: the first one, But this is the first one that
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Speaker 2: we're talking about. There will be more. There would be
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Speaker 2: a lot more, And sadly, this is probably going to
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Speaker 2: become a perfectly normal thing at some point in the future.
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Speaker 2: That's just kind of where it seems to be going,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. If you've been thinking about moving to a
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Speaker 2: new state. While at hub has released their annual list
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Speaker 2: of the best states to live in in America, the
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Speaker 2: personal finance site ranked all fifty states based on fifty
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Speaker 2: one key factors, from housing costs, job opportunities to education, healthcare, safety,
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Speaker 2: overall quality of life. Massachusetts was named the best state
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Speaker 2: to live in thanks to their strong healthcare system and
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Speaker 2: high quality education. Next was Idaho, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: We start looking at some you know, reder states towards
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Speaker 2: the bottom of their list, and we look way down
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Speaker 2: at number fifty. Well just the bottom five. Maybe you
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Speaker 2: just go Alaska, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. Alabama
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Speaker 2: was forty one, by the way, and probably thinking well
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Speaker 2: where was Georgia twenty seven? Comfortably kind of there in
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Speaker 2: the middle. So yeah, Massachusetts, that's a really really blue one,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. Then of course New Jersey's in there, so Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, wallet hub, you can have your opinions, I guess,
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Speaker 2: I mean, based on their rubric. This is what they got.
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Speaker 2: This is what they came up with. How many times
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Speaker 2: have you been so busy at work that you realize
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Speaker 2: late in the day that you forgot to eat lunch?
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Speaker 2: New survey fines fifty five percent of American workers regularly
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Speaker 2: skip lunch on busy days, choosing productivity over a proper meal.
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Speaker 2: In fact, many forget to eat lunch entirely about two
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Speaker 2: days a week on average. Also, forty three percent of
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Speaker 2: workers say they actually need reminders just to eat, with
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Speaker 2: women more likely than men to need those nudges. Of
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Speaker 2: those workers who always take a lunch, their break is
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Speaker 2: typically thirty five minutes long. Most people are eating lunch
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Speaker 2: around twelve forty eight PM. As far as what everyone's eating,
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Speaker 2: sandwich is still the to go choice, A go to
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Speaker 2: choice with seventy five percent of workers. That makes sense.
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Speaker 2: I would have guessed sandwiches. That makes the most sense.
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Speaker 2: Cost of college education is up, and people are saying,
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Speaker 2: basically they just can't swing in. A group of professors
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Speaker 2: at Washington DC is offering a unique opportunity for those
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Speaker 2: with a thirst for education but lack of funds. The
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Speaker 2: group is called Profs and Pints, and while students won't
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Speaker 2: actually be earning any college credits, they'll earn an education
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Speaker 2: at a tiny fraction of the price, and they're allowed
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Speaker 2: to drink in class. Peter Schmidt seems legit. A former
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Speaker 2: education reporter, started Profs and Pints, and he says he
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Speaker 2: wanted to bring people back to learning, just like Socrates.
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Speaker 2: Did you know with beer? His roster. Professor set up
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Speaker 2: the classes in bars, cafes, and restaurants and hold lectures
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Speaker 2: on a wide array of subjects. Classes cost fifteen dollars
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Speaker 2: to attend, and the audience is mostly made up of
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Speaker 2: or philosophy. And if the class is boring, at least
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Speaker 2: the drinks are good. Schmidt says it's been a success
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Speaker 2: and he hopes to expand to other cities. That'll do
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