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Things Got Roo'd on I-85 Near Auburn · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, thirtieth day, thirtieth and final day of April.
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Speaker 2: I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. We got a story
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Speaker 2: from yesterday. HiT's a little close to home in a
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Speaker 2: couple of ways. You probably heard the news over in
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Speaker 2: the Auburn area on Interstate eighty five, a kangaroo was
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Speaker 2: on the loose and it actually caused a single car
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Speaker 2: accident or I guess a car accident. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if it was one or two cars involved. I guess
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Speaker 2: it was on I eighty five on the southbound side
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Speaker 2: and it was a single car crash that happened mile
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Speaker 2: marker forty six. And the video, of course, has gone
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Speaker 2: viral in the area as folks were wondering why is
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Speaker 2: they're a kangaroo hopping down the highway in Auburn, And
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Speaker 2: the best explanation is that it got out. It was
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Speaker 2: living on a farm somewhere over in the area and
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Speaker 2: it got loose, and it did what animals do when
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Speaker 2: they get loose. It started, I don't know, running for freedom.
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Speaker 2: I'm just running wild hopping down the street. Folks were stunned,
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Speaker 2: obviously to see a kangaroo. This is a common thing
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Speaker 2: to see, by the way, in many parts of Australia.
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Speaker 2: I have seen them along roadways when I have been there,
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Speaker 2: which I have spent many months of my life in
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Speaker 2: Australia over the years accumulated, and I can tell you
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Speaker 2: it's not uncommon to see them hopping around. And I
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Speaker 2: can tell you also that my lovely bra once when
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Speaker 2: she was still sort of a young driver, when she
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Speaker 2: was in her what they would call Uni days at
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Speaker 2: her time at university. She we would say college. They
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Speaker 2: say they're Uni days. But she was driving along and
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Speaker 2: she tells people, I mean, the best way to describe
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Speaker 2: it is that she's hit one with her car. It
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Speaker 2: really more hit her, collided with her. And that's anybody
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Speaker 2: who's ever had a run in with like a deer,
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Speaker 2: that's sort of the experience for them down there, is
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Speaker 2: they would have a collision of some kind, sometimes with
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Speaker 2: a kangaroo, and it's sort of like us hitting a deer. It's,
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Speaker 2: you know, not something that happens to you every day,
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Speaker 2: but at some point maybe you have that kind of
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Speaker 2: encounter or you see it happen. I remember leaving the
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Speaker 2: soccer fields one day after practice and seeing a deer
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Speaker 2: jump into the side of a friend's car and just
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Speaker 2: right there in front of me. That's basically what happened
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Speaker 2: to Jill, except it was a kangaroo and it was
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Speaker 2: in Australia. Now, this particular kangaroo who is a pet
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Speaker 2: of some kind of someone who lives in that area.
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Speaker 2: It says that now that it's been returned home, and
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Speaker 2: I don't know how. You know, it's a very specific
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Speaker 2: method for capturing a kangaroo. It's not really like any
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Speaker 2: other animals that animal Control would have to round up here.
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Speaker 2: It's very different than many of the animals. But they
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Speaker 2: managed to catch it and get it returned home, and
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Speaker 2: I guess the animal is still resting, or at least
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Speaker 2: it was as of last night, so I assume extra
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Speaker 2: precautions will be taken to make sure it doesn't get
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Speaker 2: out again. You feel for the person involved in the
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Speaker 2: car accident that went with it. They have a wild
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Speaker 2: story to tell. I suppose. I don't know that the
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Speaker 2: kangaroo is involved in the accident. I don't think it
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Speaker 2: actually allided with the car, but anyway, you feel for
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Speaker 2: them because a lot of people were in convenience yesterday
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Speaker 2: as there was a lot of traffic backed up and
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Speaker 2: huge inconvenience for people that were trying to commute and
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Speaker 2: go in that area yesterday. But in the end, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's a I guess, mostly happy ending. And except for
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Speaker 2: whoever was in the car accident, I don't know how
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Speaker 2: badly damaged their vehicle was. But there you go, the
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Speaker 2: animal back home, and that's the positive. That's the good news, right.
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Speaker 2: I've probably been hearing a lot about the first one
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Speaker 2: hundred days of the administration. We heard we heard a
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Speaker 2: lot about the first hundred days for this first hundred days,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of people trying to go back and
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Speaker 2: rank it, say, how did how is the president done
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Speaker 2: as he'd been keeping his promises? How did it all go?
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Speaker 2: Which are all fair questions. That's what most presidents get
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Speaker 2: questioned on, or their ability to get things done in
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Speaker 2: the first hundred days is off in track. Now. We've
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Speaker 2: had different types of presidents. Some that think got to
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Speaker 2: get things up and running quickly. There have been some
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Speaker 2: who just kind of take their time. Some don't really
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Speaker 2: do anything, They just kind of they're just there, you know,
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Speaker 2: eating ice cream and watching Matt Locke or Murder she
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Speaker 2: Rode or whatever. And you know that's just that other people,
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Speaker 2: I guess are trying to get things done behind the scenes.
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Speaker 2: That's the way that administration went. When you have this
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Speaker 2: really unique and very uncommon thing, and it's about as
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Speaker 2: common as you know, a kangaroo hopping down I eighty
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Speaker 2: five in Alabama, you have this administration that has, you know,
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Speaker 2: the bump in the middle, another presidency in the middle. Trump,
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Speaker 2: you know, got started pretty quickly with his first term
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Speaker 2: back in twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen. After the twenty
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Speaker 2: sixteen election, he got started pretty quickly, and obviously the
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Speaker 2: things got derailed with COVID, and ultimately COVID ended up
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Speaker 2: having a big factor in the way the election turned out.
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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty, Biden administration gets in, they start kind
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Speaker 2: of doing whatever you want to call that. They did
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Speaker 2: these promises of we're going to get past COVID and
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Speaker 2: we're going to get the economy restarted, and all they
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Speaker 2: really did was take credits for credit for jobs that
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Speaker 2: came back that had gone away. More so than anything else.
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Speaker 2: That was one of their first hundred days. Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 2: in the first hundred days. Look at all these jobs
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Speaker 2: that we created, these brand new jobs. These are certainly
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Speaker 2: not jobs that were lost during the pandemic that we
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Speaker 2: did everything we could to. Now, this is not saying
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Speaker 2: the pandemic wasn't serious. You had a global pandemic with
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Speaker 2: millions of people dying. I'm not saying that that's not
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Speaker 2: the case. I have people in my life who passed away.
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Speaker 2: You know this is I'm not discounting the seriousness of
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Speaker 2: this coronavirus that was the COVID pandemic. That's not what
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Speaker 2: I'm doing. But we know that a lot of this
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Speaker 2: was exaggerated. A lot of this was really politicized. And
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Speaker 2: when I say exaggerated, that's a very I understand you
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Speaker 2: might say, oh my gosh, well I know someone who died.
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Speaker 2: I know people who died. I'm not saying that it
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Speaker 2: wasn't serious. I'm just talking about the fact that we
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Speaker 2: were told very conflicting things. You must stay home. You
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Speaker 2: can't go out in public under any circumstance. You need
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Speaker 2: to stay six feet apart unless you're protesting for something political.
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Speaker 2: Then you can be close together because that's more important.
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Speaker 2: That's what I mean by it was exaggerated. And there's
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Speaker 2: no evidence now, all this time later that says that
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Speaker 2: six feet apart did anything. Nobody really even knows where
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Speaker 2: that came from. Someone just pulled that out of thin
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Speaker 2: air and said, here's what we're going to do. This
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Speaker 2: is what we're gonna tell people to do, and we're
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Speaker 2: gonna have all these things in place that basically may
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Speaker 2: not really do anything, may not be overly helpful, but
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Speaker 2: we want them good and scared, so we can have these,
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Speaker 2: you know, mail in ballots, we can have these dropbox
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Speaker 2: ballots just enough to at least raise some concerns, right,
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Speaker 2: at least have some things where you go, it seems
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Speaker 2: a little weird, it seems a little strange. And then
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Speaker 2: when you're like me and you know people who had
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Speaker 2: votes cast on their behalf in states they don't even
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Speaker 2: live in anymore, and you go, well, that certainly wouldn't
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Speaker 2: have happened if not for all of this mail in
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Speaker 2: ballot and drop box ballot thing. But anyway, that aside,
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Speaker 2: you got the Biden administration who jumps in and says,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna fix it. This is what we're gonna do.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna get everything back on track, and we're gonna
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Speaker 2: do everything we can to pass as much legislation as
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Speaker 2: we can. It's gonna be focused on green energy, not
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Speaker 2: getting people, you know, back to work or not getting
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Speaker 2: people although people did go back to work. I mean
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Speaker 2: that was one of the first things they were able
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Speaker 2: to have some control over, is getting people back to work.
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Speaker 2: But you know, main focus was about green energy and
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Speaker 2: Green New Deal and redistribution of wealth and all those
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Speaker 2: main hardcore, hard line things that the left focuses on
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Speaker 2: most of the time. Even if you create this huge
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Speaker 2: issue with inflation and say, well, now we can get
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Speaker 2: it past if we call this Green New Deal thing
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Speaker 2: the Inflation Reduction Act. So first hundred days really just
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Speaker 2: kind of this, here's what we're going to do. Here's
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Speaker 2: how we're going to make this seem you know, we're
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Speaker 2: definitely creating jobs and not just bringing people back into
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Speaker 2: work in certain situations. Anyway, So here we go. Now
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Speaker 2: you get the first hundred days of this new Trump administration. Who, again,
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Speaker 2: because he's had the interruption, he really had to hit
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Speaker 2: the ground running. He can't say that he's doing this
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Speaker 2: with an eight year term in mind. Although although we
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Speaker 2: all know this conversation has started to come up. What
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Speaker 2: does the law specifically say he can't be elected a
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Speaker 2: third time? But some of the people trying to say, well,
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Speaker 2: maybe there's a way that he could end up being
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Speaker 2: a president again. Look, I'll give you my thoughts on that.
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Speaker 2: We don't want to open that can. We just don't.
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Speaker 2: We don't want that. I understand there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: people who would love Trump to be president for you know,
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Speaker 2: the rest of his life. Is that really in our
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Speaker 2: best interest? Is that really the best interest? We want
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Speaker 2: to open this can for future presidents. We had a
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Speaker 2: president who you know, during World War two, during the depression,
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Speaker 2: that did a lot of social programs for the left,
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Speaker 2: got us in a weird place with a lot of
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Speaker 2: sol social programs. Some either praise him on the left,
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Speaker 2: some do not praise him on the right. Do we
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Speaker 2: want another situation like that? Do we want to open
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Speaker 2: the door for another situation like that? I know that
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Speaker 2: I've heard stories that they're already selling Trump twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: eight hats that say, you know, rewrite the law or
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Speaker 2: whatever it says, some little catchphrase to go with it. Look,
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Speaker 2: my thoughts on it two terms. I mean, we've gone
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Speaker 2: through this with members of with Congress who have served
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Speaker 2: these you know, life sentences working in Congress, people who
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Speaker 2: like you know, burned every bit of energy they had
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Speaker 2: serving in Congress and then became president and then had
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Speaker 2: nothing left in the tank. You know, we just lived
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Speaker 2: that experience. So I don't know that we you know,
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Speaker 2: we hear all of this talk about we need term
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Speaker 2: limits in Congress. We need term limits. We got to
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Speaker 2: make sure that we don't have people serving too long.
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Speaker 2: And I think if we're going to say that about Congress,
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Speaker 2: we should definitely say that about the presidency. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: so have the first one hundred days gone, and well,
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Speaker 2: we know that the economy is you know, they say
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Speaker 2: they're working things out. We've seen some progress. We saw
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Speaker 2: the stock market take a hit, we saw the stock
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Speaker 2: market bounce back. We know the tariff thing is looming. Deportations.
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Speaker 2: People have been in general, across the board in the
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Speaker 2: country a high percentage or in favor of what's been
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Speaker 2: going on with deportations, even though the Left has selected
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Speaker 2: certain people to say we're worried about this guy, and
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Speaker 2: we're concerned about this and we want to make sure
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Speaker 2: this person who was set to be deported, that was
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Speaker 2: deported shouldn't have been deported because you know, they were here.
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Speaker 2: That's not a reason not to deport. To be deported,
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Speaker 2: you have to be here, and you have to be here,
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Speaker 2: you know, with re to be deported or otherwise it's
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Speaker 2: not going to happen. But I want to jump over
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Speaker 2: to this because we have seen it continue. We're getting
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Speaker 2: into a graduation season, we're getting we're working our way
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Speaker 2: towards more university graduations, and you know, this is where
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Speaker 2: things got real nasty a year ago. And we've been
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Speaker 2: watching this play out a few times. As you know,
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Speaker 2: we're looking at this situation with you know a number
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Speaker 2: of cases involving people that they want to take their
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Speaker 2: you know, student visa away from them. The State Department says,
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Speaker 2: we get every right to do it. Folks on the
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Speaker 2: left don't seem to want to let people who you know,
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Speaker 2: support terrorist activities be deported. Well, we got this report
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Speaker 2: as the Trump administration says they have revoked four thousand
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Speaker 2: foreign student visas in the first hundred days, and ninety
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Speaker 2: percent of them were revoked because they had criminal records.
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Speaker 2: More than five hundred of the foreign students whose visas
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Speaker 2: were revoked reportedly had assault records. How about that our
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Speaker 2: visa system has lacked oversight and accountability. Over the past
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Speaker 2: one hundred days, the Trump administration has worked to fix
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Speaker 2: a broken system. This coming from someone from the State
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Speaker 2: Department in the senior position, Secretary Rubio has led the
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Speaker 2: State Department to take a surgical vetting approach to ensure
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Speaker 2: individuals in America or visitors and abiding by our laws.
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Speaker 2: We established an action working Group, which has resulted in
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Speaker 2: thousands of visas being revoked because these individuals broke our laws.
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Speaker 2: This is what effective governance looks like. Goes back a
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Speaker 2: little bit to our conversation yesterday as we talked about
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Speaker 2: this idea of how can some people be above the
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Speaker 2: law but not everyone be above the law? How can
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Speaker 2: we say that folks that have questionable reasons to be here.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I understand you could have a student visa
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Speaker 2: and maybe you do have a past, and you've come
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Speaker 2: in kind of with hat in hand, and you've said, look,
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Speaker 2: I've got a rough past, but I want to make
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Speaker 2: the best of life in America. And that's what you're doing.
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Speaker 2: It's another thing, if you're here on a student visa
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Speaker 2: and you have ill intentions of the country, and I
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Speaker 2: think that's the thing that people have to have questions about.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's the thing. Sources also say that folks
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Speaker 2: came and were breaking the law and had no consequences.
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Speaker 2: There was a special action team set up to handle this.
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Speaker 2: And also from the State Department, they are they want
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Speaker 2: to provoke visas every day in order to assure America's
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Speaker 2: borders and keep the community safe, and will continue to
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Speaker 2: do so because the process is ongoing, the number of
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Speaker 2: revocations is dynamic, and it generally does not provide statistics
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Speaker 2: on visa revocations. Typically department does not. So, yeah, this
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Speaker 2: is another win for the American people for the first
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Speaker 2: hundred days in office for the president as It's interesting
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Speaker 2: because there's so many things that I think the American
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Speaker 2: people have positively looked at and said, no, we want
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Speaker 2: the law to apply to everyone. We want the law
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Speaker 2: concerning people being in the country illegally. That's a broken law.
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Speaker 2: And if someone's here on a visa and they lied
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Speaker 2: to get it or they have broken the law while
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Speaker 2: they were here, yes, taking away that student visa, it
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Speaker 2: should be on the table. Department should have the ability
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Speaker 2: right after the break well, could the eighth time be
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Speaker 2: the charm? As Florida lawmakers are once again trying to
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Speaker 2: dethrone the northern mocking bird as the official state bird
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Speaker 2: of Florida and replacing it with the pink American flamingo. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: this is a familiar story. As I said, this is
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Speaker 2: the eighth time they've tried this over the last twenty
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Speaker 2: five years. Two new bills have been introduced, one to
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Speaker 2: name the pink flamingo the official state bird, the other
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Speaker 2: to name the Florida scrubjay as the official Florida state
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Speaker 2: song bird. Supporters of the bill argue that the flamingo
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Speaker 2: is a Florida icon and most people already assumed it
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Speaker 2: was the state bird. If the bills are passed by
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Speaker 2: the legislature and signed by Governor DeSantis, they would take
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Speaker 2: effect beginning on July first. I can remember as a
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Speaker 2: kid there was a period of time where we had
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Speaker 2: to learn I wasn't in Florida, I was in Georgia,
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Speaker 2: but we had to learn all the you know, state flowers,
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Speaker 2: state bird, state tree, all those sorts of things. So
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Speaker 2: it would be I think, for some the equivalent of saying,
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Speaker 2: you know, Pluto's not a planet anymore for a lot
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Speaker 2: of people as that, although apparently a lot of people
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Speaker 2: already think that the flamingo, which, by the way, you know,
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Speaker 2: you drive around in Florida and you're going to see
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Speaker 2: lots of pink flamingos in people's yards already. I mean
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Speaker 2: not the live ones, but the decorative ones. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't think this is necessarily a bad idea, but
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Speaker 2: I don't really have a say in the matter, but
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Speaker 2: I guess I could ask some of my Well, if
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Speaker 2: you're listening in Florida, I'd love to hear from you,
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Speaker 2: what are your thoughts on it? Well, as people are
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Speaker 2: making changes at the checkouts and still recovering from COVID
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Speaker 2: and recovering from some really bad decisions that were made
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Speaker 2: post COVID, including many decisions that did nothing but drive
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Speaker 2: the price of things up and hit record inflation. Right now,
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Speaker 2: people are trying to hang in there until some of
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Speaker 2: the more recent changes take place, and prices that are
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Speaker 2: we're already starting to drop, but hoping that maybe they'll
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Speaker 2: drop some more but then, of course we've got this
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Speaker 2: tear of question of where things are going to go.
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Speaker 2: So people have started to be a little more frugal
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Speaker 2: in the stores, according to a new lending Tree survey,
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Speaker 2: happening a lot at grocery stores. The survey found eighty
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Speaker 2: eight percent of respondents say they have changed their grocery
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Speaker 2: shopping habits, forty four percent buying more store in generic brands,
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Speaker 2: thirty eight percent sticking to their list very strictly and
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Speaker 2: not buying anything that they don't need, twenty nine percent
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Speaker 2: paying closer attention to prices in the stores. The survey
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Speaker 2: revealed a slight difference in shopping based on gender. Ninety
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Speaker 2: one percent of women said they've changed their spending habit
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Speaker 2: at the supermarket, eighty five percent men, and eighty five
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Speaker 2: percent of those making more than one hundred thousand dollars
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Speaker 2: said that they've changed their grocery habit. So that's interesting
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Speaker 2: also maybe not necessarily predictable, but making over one hundred
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Speaker 2: thousand change in their shopping habits, I mean, it just
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Speaker 2: shows maybe the widespread eyebrow rays of people going, well,
24:11
Speaker 2: wait a minute, what's going on right now? Sixty one
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Speaker 2: percent said that they've worried about how they'll pay for
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Speaker 2: groceries over the last month, twelve percent concern almost all
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Speaker 2: the time. Twenty seven percent say they're being more mindful
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Speaker 2: of food waste and using more of what they buy,
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Speaker 2: twenty six percent using coupons more, twenty five percent not
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Speaker 2: buying their favorite splurges that they typically would buy and
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Speaker 2: then just switching over. This was about grocery stores, but
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Speaker 2: it's also happening at restaurants. Fifty nine percent said they're
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Speaker 2: eating out less frequently, twenty nine percent said they're paying
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Speaker 2: more attention to menu prices, twenty four percent say that
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Speaker 2: they're looking for more deals when they eat out, sixteen
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Speaker 2: percent said that they're looking for at fast food for
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Speaker 2: less expensive option, and ten percent say that they're choosing
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Speaker 2: takeout or delivery so they don't have to tip or
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Speaker 2: tip as much. So I have seen that apparently some
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Speaker 2: of the and tip culture is it is what it is, okay,
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Speaker 2: And that's the most polite, delicate way that I can
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Speaker 2: say it. Tip culture is what it is. There was
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Speaker 2: a time when you go in, you pick up food,
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Speaker 2: there's no expectation of a tip. That has changed now.
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people who just will take
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Speaker 2: food in a styrofoam container, place it in a bag
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Speaker 2: and hand it to you are expecting a tip, and
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Speaker 2: in some cases expecting really high tips. I have seen
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Speaker 2: that restaurant workers and even people that are literally putting
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Speaker 2: it in a bag and handing it to you are
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Speaker 2: expecting a thirty percent tip. Used to be I think
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Speaker 2: there was a time when it was maybe ten, and
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Speaker 2: then of course we got to fifteen, then to eighteen.
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Speaker 2: That quickly went to twenty twenty five, and then I
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Speaker 2: think it bypassed really twenty five. As the quote unquote
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Speaker 2: social media expectation, it jumped to thirty percent. As far
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Speaker 2: as what the expectation is, I don't know how many
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Speaker 2: people are across the board tipping thirty percent, but I
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Speaker 2: think there is an expectation from some for thirty percent.
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