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Happy New Year, Venezuela! · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, fifth day of January twenty twenty six. I'm Wes.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me into the new year. I hope
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Speaker 2: you had a fantastic start to the new year. We
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Speaker 2: did a few shows last week before the New Year's Eve.
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Speaker 2: What I took was another little break there, and I
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Speaker 2: know many are back to work, if you haven't already
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Speaker 2: been back to work. Many getting back to work today,
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Speaker 2: and I thought, well, time for me to get back
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Speaker 2: to work as well and get started on the twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty six gathering and collection of shows. So here we
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Speaker 2: are getting started, and it seemed like an appropriate time
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Speaker 2: to get started. We did have some rather significant news
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Speaker 2: that took place over the weekend. We'll get to that
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Speaker 2: in just a minute. I hope that your clothes out
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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five was great. I know many people
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Speaker 2: that some did trips for the new year. I'm always
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Speaker 2: anxious to hear how some of those trips go. I
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Speaker 2: know people that have done the mobile trip, that's a
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Speaker 2: big one. They dropped the moonpie or whatever. There I've
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Speaker 2: got one former colleague who I guess he still does this.
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Speaker 2: We haven't really talked in a couple of years specifically
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Speaker 2: about this, but he used to go to New York
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Speaker 2: City to watch the ball drop every year, started, I
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Speaker 2: say every year. He started doing it many years ago,
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Speaker 2: and he had a pretty good string of years together.
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Speaker 2: And he always would describe it as you know, obviously
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Speaker 2: as significant as you would have it would be to
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Speaker 2: someone who wanted to be around a large crowd of people.
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Speaker 2: I can't imagine getting in the specifics that he described,
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Speaker 2: the conditions that you had to be in to be
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Speaker 2: part of New Year's Eve there in New York City,
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Speaker 2: but getting there really early in the morning something you know, insane,
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Speaker 2: like seven am or something. I forget how early. Maybe
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Speaker 2: it was noon, and you had to basically be there
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Speaker 2: for like twelve hours in the city. This was his experience.
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Speaker 2: I can't speak to all of the people in that area,
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Speaker 2: but I assume it's a pretty tight knit group of
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Speaker 2: people that are that are there. I don't think there's
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Speaker 2: I mean, maybe there's separate sub parties and things that
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Speaker 2: are there as far as the TV broadcast go, but basically,
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Speaker 2: you know, I think it was like twelve hours. You
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Speaker 2: had to just be there, and no, you couldn't leave.
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Speaker 2: He said there were no bathrooms. I don't know how
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Speaker 2: that works. I was always fascinated to hear. Maybe he
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Speaker 2: just meant there were, you know, porta potties and things
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Speaker 2: that you could use there, but you couldn't leave the area.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's his description of it. No bathrooms. He
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Speaker 2: was just stuck there for like twelve hours, And I'm thinking,
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Speaker 2: what do you do for twelve hours? At some point
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Speaker 2: your body is going to say, eh, I need to
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Speaker 2: go do something somewhere. But I assume when he described it,
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Speaker 2: and I would ask, you know, porta potties, and he's like,
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Speaker 2: no bathrooms. I don't know if he counts that as
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Speaker 2: a bathroom. I don't know, but he just said you're
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Speaker 2: kind of crammed in there and you have to wait.
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Speaker 2: But I would imagine it's got to be an amazing experience,
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Speaker 2: a great bucket list thing to say, yeah, you did that.
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Speaker 2: There's a handful of things that I would think would
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Speaker 2: qualify as these kind of bucket list things, and that's
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Speaker 2: got to be one of them. I don't know that
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Speaker 2: it's something that I mean, if I was there and
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Speaker 2: I was in New York and I could get close
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Speaker 2: enough to I don't I wouldn't want to be in
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Speaker 2: the twelve hours with no bathroom group. I wouldn't want
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Speaker 2: to be anywhere near that that kind of crowd and uh,
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Speaker 2: just people jammed together in security. I would be uncomfortable.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be I wouldn't like that. We years ago
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Speaker 2: and early two thousands, we went to Disney World after
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Speaker 2: Christmas and we were there kind of by accident for
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Speaker 2: New Years. I mean we had planned to be there,
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Speaker 2: knowing we were going to be there at New Year's Eve,
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Speaker 2: but it didn't really fully hit us. You know. This
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Speaker 2: was you know, twenty plus years ago, as much younger
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Speaker 2: and didn't wasn't really on my radar that that was
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Speaker 2: a big deal to be at Disney for New Year's
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Speaker 2: Eve and we were there at midnight. I would not
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Speaker 2: have done it on I wouldn't do it on purpose.
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Speaker 2: Now I don't know that I would have done it
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Speaker 2: on purpose. Then I was with a group of Jill
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Speaker 2: at the time when we weren't married yet, but we
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Speaker 2: were there with friends and none of us really knew
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Speaker 2: what is The crowd started to really pack in in
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Speaker 2: Magic Kingdom. We thought, well, this seems to be a
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Speaker 2: pretty cool experience we're about to have. We just we
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Speaker 2: were naive to all of it. Now, of course, I
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Speaker 2: think it's pretty common knowledge that Disney is a big
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Speaker 2: place to do it. So, and you know, there have
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Speaker 2: been a few things Jill and I a few years ago,
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Speaker 2: and I've talked a little bit about this, but we
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Speaker 2: were in New Orleans during Marty Gras visiting a friend.
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Speaker 2: It just happened to fall, you know, in that situation
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Speaker 2: where we went. We were visiting this friend. We were
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Speaker 2: there with our boys. Our friend offered to watch the
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Speaker 2: boys if she and I if Jill and I wanted
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Speaker 2: to go just check out the craziness of Marty Gras
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Speaker 2: and Bourbon Street, And you know, at first we were like, no,
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Speaker 2: we don't want to do that at all all. And
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Speaker 2: then we got to a point where we thought, we
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Speaker 2: were here, we should just go wander into it, right,
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Speaker 2: we should just go see whatever it is. And we
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Speaker 2: knew we were going to probably see some things that
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Speaker 2: we could none see. We were kind of anticipating that,
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Speaker 2: but also prepared to, you know, just take in some
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Speaker 2: of the other sites and you know, just be there,
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Speaker 2: just see what was going on, and probably not spend
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Speaker 2: very long there. And it won't surprise you if you
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Speaker 2: know me or Jill that you know we were not
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Speaker 2: there very long. There were a few places specifically that
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Speaker 2: we wanted to go and see some of the sites
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Speaker 2: that were there, and we thought, well, we got there,
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Speaker 2: the crowds were coming in. It was kind of we
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Speaker 2: were in that phase of trying to come out of COVID,
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Speaker 2: so there were just a lot of people there and
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Speaker 2: too many people to be comfortable anyway, and those stories
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Speaker 2: that you hear about Marty Gras and Bourbon Street, some
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Speaker 2: of those things were starting to play out and we
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Speaker 2: just got uncomfortable and said we need to go. The
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Speaker 2: other parts of Marty Graus were great, the daytime parades
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Speaker 2: and things that was all fun. There was no Shenanigans there,
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Speaker 2: but we felt like we're here. This is one of
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Speaker 2: those things that you just you're there, you do it,
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Speaker 2: you check the box and you go that's it. We
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Speaker 2: did it, and we spent very little time. We hustled
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Speaker 2: to the spots we wanted to go to, and then
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Speaker 2: in trying to leave, Jill said, let's go a different way.
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Speaker 2: Let's don't go down the main street. There's too many people.
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Speaker 2: And I pointed out to her that the main street
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Speaker 2: had police officers every block, the other streets did not.
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Speaker 2: We were gonna go back where there were more lights
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Speaker 2: and at least some sort of you know, law enforcement presence,
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Speaker 2: and that's what we did, and we got out of
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Speaker 2: there pretty quickly. Our friend was like, really, you're tapping
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Speaker 2: out this fast, and yes, and you kind of knew
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Speaker 2: we were, din't you, And she said, yeah, probably so
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Speaker 2: we we You know that It's just one of those
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Speaker 2: things that you experience sometimes. And I think the whole
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Speaker 2: New Year's thing is is that. And you know, there's
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Speaker 2: not really a direct connection in those two things. There's
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Speaker 2: some other things that I think would be worth checking out.
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Speaker 2: I just I don't know now. Maybe in a much
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe in my early twenties, I might have
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Speaker 2: been able to brave New York City a Times Square
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Speaker 2: for New Year's But no, not not anymore. Again, if
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Speaker 2: I was there, it would be different if I was
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Speaker 2: already in the city and I thought we can wander
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Speaker 2: down there. But I think there's just a lot you
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Speaker 2: have to make reservations. There's security checks, is a lot.
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Speaker 2: You have to go through a lot just to be
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Speaker 2: there for that and to the people who do it, hey,
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Speaker 2: good for you. I know that there's some other places obviously,
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Speaker 2: we've got, you know, places in Georgia, Atlanta has a
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Speaker 2: nice start to the year presence, and many of the
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Speaker 2: places where everybody kind of has their own thing to drop,
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Speaker 2: peaches and moon pies and whatever. Whatever you got to
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Speaker 2: drop to kick off a new year, you do it.
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Speaker 2: So I would you had a great close out to
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Speaker 2: the year. I hope you've had a great start so
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Speaker 2: far to this year. I tell you who I think
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Speaker 2: to me, in my very humble opinion, has had a
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Speaker 2: good start to the year. That's the folks and the
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Speaker 2: Trump administration and Delta Force. We have. We have had
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Speaker 2: a very telling reaction to the Maduro takedown that took
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Speaker 2: place over the weekend, and just to kind of and
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Speaker 2: you know, this is one of those situations in Venezuela.
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Speaker 2: It's been a long time coming, don't kids yourself. In
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Speaker 2: spite of what you've heard from politicians on the left,
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Speaker 2: they said this guy was bad, they wanted him gone.
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Speaker 2: There was just never the right situation to take him out.
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Speaker 2: There had been and this is by you know, the
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Speaker 2: Biden administration put a bounty on his head. This is
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Speaker 2: not something that just suddenly out of nowhere became a thing.
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Speaker 2: So don't don't kid yourself on that. The same party
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Speaker 2: that organized and participated in no Kings, no Dictators protests
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Speaker 2: for absolutely no reason whatsoever last year, solely just for
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Speaker 2: the purposes of boy, everybody hates Trump, and that's what
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Speaker 2: these protests are about. They don't like kings, they don't
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Speaker 2: like dictators. Yet here on you know, as of today,
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Speaker 2: this Monday morning, you got many on the left for
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Speaker 2: some reason, defending that regime and defending you know, the
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Speaker 2: people on that side of this takedown of this dictator
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Speaker 2: and for all purposes, a self proclaimed king, someone who
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Speaker 2: would not allow elections results to decide who was leadership.
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Speaker 2: This is someone who had definitely put himself in power,
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Speaker 2: was not going anywhere until someone took him out. I
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Speaker 2: do understand there are some things that can be discussed
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Speaker 2: concerning what the plan was moving forward, what the next
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Speaker 2: steps are. I do understand there is more to the
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Speaker 2: geopolitics than just hey, we took a bad guy out. However,
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Speaker 2: we did take a bad guy out, as he is
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Speaker 2: set to begin all this procedures he and his wife
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Speaker 2: brought to the US. They set to begin court proceedings
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Speaker 2: that are formalities just to begin the process. This is
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Speaker 2: something that will probably go on for years in theory,
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Speaker 2: I mean, if it goes through its natural progression of
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Speaker 2: things with the courts, this is something that should last
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Speaker 2: for years. So what we can say about this is
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Speaker 2: that this Trump administration, who did not seek counsel and
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Speaker 2: advice from the left, did not go to Democrats in Congress.
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Speaker 2: I understand the concerns there as well. However, we do
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Speaker 2: have a bit of a track record now where for
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Speaker 2: some reason leaks happened. And this is not a case
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Speaker 2: where there was much room for error. This is a
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Speaker 2: mission that was carried out with precision. They practiced. They
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Speaker 2: had a point a bullet four or five days ago
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Speaker 2: where they were going to do this thing, and decided
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Speaker 2: that the weather wasn't right for it, and they called
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Speaker 2: it off, and then they reset and did it again.
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Speaker 2: You heard the descriptions of how detailed and prepared they
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Speaker 2: were to go in and take Themau out of his home.
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Speaker 2: By all the counts, the forces that were on that
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Speaker 2: side were ready. Although it doesn't seem that Maduro was
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Speaker 2: depending on which version of the reporting you've heard, there
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Speaker 2: were strikes that were carried out to military targets around Venezuela,
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Speaker 2: and it was air defense systems specific military targets. This
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Speaker 2: is not a case of the US bombing where citizens
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Speaker 2: were in Venezuela. And there are Americans, probably paid agitators,
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Speaker 2: probably a handful of genuine people that are concerned, but
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Speaker 2: for the most part, most Venezuelan Americans have expressed gratitude.
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Speaker 2: There is some fear. That fear comes when you have
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Speaker 2: been under an oppressive regime and you've experienced it, and
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Speaker 2: you see someone taken out and you just think, who's next,
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Speaker 2: Who's going to step in and fill that void? Are
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Speaker 2: they going to be worse? If you've ever had an
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Speaker 2: abusive boss at work, you know what I'm talking about,
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Speaker 2: it's really easy to say this boss at work is terrible.
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Speaker 2: We don't like them, boy, they have been abusive to us.
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Speaker 2: And when someone says, you know, they could be taken out,
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Speaker 2: you know, and fired and bring someone else in, and
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Speaker 2: you go, well, we don't know what the other person's
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Speaker 2: going to be like either. And that's the reality of it.
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Speaker 2: That's just the reality of what many, especially in Venezuela,
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Speaker 2: are concerned about. However, when you see footage from the streets,
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Speaker 2: there are people very excited about getting out from under
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Speaker 2: this person. And when you start talking about the people
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Speaker 2: that are defending him, or defending it, or defending his removal,
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Speaker 2: this should, if nothing else, be a reminder of pardon
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Speaker 2: the expression, but one how badass our military absolutely is,
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Speaker 2: how competent and effective they are when they are under
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Speaker 2: the right leadership, how capable they are of carrying out
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Speaker 2: this kind of mission with this level. We saw this
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Speaker 2: when bin Laden was taken out. So that's one thing too.
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Speaker 2: And one of the things that I think is the
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Speaker 2: objection that comes from many on the left is we've
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Speaker 2: gotten a reminder of how bad socialism is, how bad
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Speaker 2: this idea of socialism not being some sort of ultimate communist,
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Speaker 2: you know, grapple for power, all of the things that
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Speaker 2: we know to be. This is another failed regime. And
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Speaker 2: when you hear stories about the people in Venezuela that
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Speaker 2: we're waiting on food, you know, food from the government,
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Speaker 2: waiting on their handouts, they were told from the very beginning,
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Speaker 2: this is what you're going to get your going to
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Speaker 2: get food from us, and you better hope we don't
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Speaker 2: go anywhere or you won't have food anymore. Sounds a
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Speaker 2: whole lot like some of the programs that we have here. Yes,
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Speaker 2: we have some socialist programs in America. We do. And
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Speaker 2: when you hear about people that are basically told vote
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Speaker 2: for us and we'll keep them going for you. Vote
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Speaker 2: for us, and we're gonna forgive student debt. Vote for us,
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Speaker 2: and we're going to increase the money that you get
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Speaker 2: on these social programs, sounds all too familiar, and people
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Speaker 2: don't want to take a minute and step back and
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Speaker 2: look at some of these programs and look at some
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Speaker 2: of these things and say, this is what was taking
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Speaker 2: place there. And when you have people that were there
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Speaker 2: waiting on their box of food to be delivered, and
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Speaker 2: sometimes it was stale, sometimes it was very late. And
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Speaker 2: this is just a reminder of what those things. You
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Speaker 2: can talk all day and people say, you know, well,
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Speaker 2: communism in theory works, It worked. Communes work on a
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Speaker 2: very small scale, On a very small scale. Sure, you
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Speaker 2: can absolutely have a group of people that are sharing
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Speaker 2: livestock and crops and work on one particular piece of
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Speaker 2: land or property. But I have friends, I have people
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Speaker 2: that I know that have you know, families that live
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Speaker 2: together on communes. And it's not all roses there. There's
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Speaker 2: complications that always come with it. And when you get
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Speaker 2: politicians involved in any capacity, and people that are power
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Speaker 2: hungry and money hungry, and when you find out people
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Speaker 2: are living in these compounds that delta force has to
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Speaker 2: go into and you find out, you know, these lavish
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Speaker 2: places and people are suffering and starving and they don't
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Speaker 2: have what they need. This is part of what they
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Speaker 2: don't want you to hear. They don't want you to
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Speaker 2: hear it. And one of the first people to come
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Speaker 2: out and criticize this whole mission, you know, was morons.
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Speaker 2: Donnie the new mayor in New York. I think I
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Speaker 2: got that backwards, but or did I? But you know, yes,
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Speaker 2: someone who is pro socialism, who is pro I think communism,
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Speaker 2: democratic socialists, that term that kind of means something else.
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Speaker 2: So it's not a big shock that you have these
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Speaker 2: people on the left that are stepping in now on principle,
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Speaker 2: you know, should there be some concern about some elements
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Speaker 2: of all of this and how it happened. I think
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Speaker 2: that's fair, sure, but what else are you going to
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Speaker 2: do if you don't trust the party on the left
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Speaker 2: to not shoot you, if you don't trust the party
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Speaker 2: on the left to not support people being shot, if
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Speaker 2: you don't have an ability to know that people on
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Speaker 2: the left aren't going to be pro violence in the
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Speaker 2: streets and burning down buildings, if you don't know that
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Speaker 2: people on the left aren't going to tip the other side.
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Speaker 2: What a horrible thought that there might have been someone
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Speaker 2: who might have tried to tip things off just so
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Speaker 2: that this would be a failed egg on his face
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Speaker 2: for Trump. They certainly don't want the optics of this
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Speaker 2: is a very successful mission. It was carried out with
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Speaker 2: precision and the the folks at Delta Force doing their
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Speaker 2: job and showing how good and a win you know,
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Speaker 2: for Pete Hegseth our War secretary aka you know, Secretary
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Speaker 2: of Defense with the War secretary. What a win for
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Speaker 2: these guys across the board. But it's a win for freedom.
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Speaker 2: It's a win for the people of Venezuela. Assuming everything
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Speaker 2: gets put into place and another dictator isn't able to
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Speaker 2: step in, and that is obviously a concern. I think
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Speaker 2: right after the break. Well, now that we're on the
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Speaker 2: other side of the Christmas holiday break and the into
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Speaker 2: New Year's Now we're into uh or into the New Year,
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Speaker 2: I should say, past the New Year's Eve holiday. I
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Speaker 2: guess we're at a phase now where the idea of
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Speaker 2: decoupling may start to kick in. Now, well, in many
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Speaker 2: cases it's you know, the people that want to get
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Speaker 2: in a relationship or out of a relationship in some cases,
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Speaker 2: but get in a relationship for the purposes of getting
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Speaker 2: into the holidays, and then they don't want to have
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Speaker 2: to you know, they have someone they spend the holidays with.
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Speaker 2: And then in some cases people do the exact opposite,
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Speaker 2: they decouple ahead of time for the purposes of not
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Speaker 2: having to worry about Christmas gifts or pressures or anything.
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Speaker 2: So it could go either way on that. But for
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Speaker 2: the people who got into a relationship for the purposes
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Speaker 2: of the holidays, get ready because the decoupling part kicks
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Speaker 2: it now. Sometimes it makes it to Valentine's Day. Just
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Speaker 2: depending on whether or not you're tolerating the other person.
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Speaker 2: But it's got me thinking about this particular study that
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Speaker 2: was done where the idea behind the study was to
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Speaker 2: find out what people think is the ideal age range
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Speaker 2: in a relationship. And if you assume, like I did,
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Speaker 2: that it would be close in age. That's correct, at
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Speaker 2: least according to this one study that tracked thousands of
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Speaker 2: couples over several years and found that the happiest couples
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Speaker 2: had an age difference of three years or less, and
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Speaker 2: the reason being that you basically have similar interest, goals,
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Speaker 2: life stages, you can navigate some of the challenges of
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Speaker 2: life more effectively. The research found that as the age
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Speaker 2: differences between the partners increase, their relationship satisfaction started to decrease.
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Speaker 2: With that said, it doesn't mean that relationships with a
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Speaker 2: big age gap are doomed to fail. The research showed
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Speaker 2: that success depends more on compatibility, shared values, mutual respect
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Speaker 2: than just age alone. Another couple theories to throw in
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Speaker 2: the mix, or reasons or strategies or whatever. Sometimes big
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Speaker 2: like a ten twenty year age gap, there are some
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Speaker 2: things that are going to be different. You're going through
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Speaker 2: different health things, maybe you're going through a different stage
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Speaker 2: when it comes to some of the friends in your life.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that could come into play
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Speaker 2: with that. And in some cases, if you're like me
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Speaker 2: and there's a lot of pop culture references. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I've got friends that are ten, twenty, even thirty years
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Speaker 2: younger than me, and they just look at me and
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Speaker 2: blink whenever I make a pop culture reference sometimes all right.
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Speaker 2: So also on the subject of decoupling, back to that
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Speaker 2: at least. There's a woman in Scotland who lives with
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Speaker 2: two of her exes, or I guess both of her
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Speaker 2: ex husbands. Her name is Christy Degaris. She lives in
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Speaker 2: a four bedroom house in the countryside in Scotland with
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Speaker 2: both of her ex husbands and their two daughters were
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Speaker 2: one from each marriage. She separated from the second husband
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Speaker 2: before the pandemic, financial issues led them to continue living together. Eventually,
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Speaker 2: Christy invited the first ex husband, who was struggling financially
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Speaker 2: it was a tough time that pandemic was to move
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Speaker 2: in as well. Surprisingly, they say the arrangement has worked.
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Speaker 2: Disagreements come from time to time, but she says sharing
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Speaker 2: the household with both exes helps to ease the burden
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Speaker 2: of parenting and chores. It relieves day to day stress,
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Speaker 2: and according to Christy, her daughters are growing up watching
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Speaker 2: domestic labor shared fairly. She says, We're not a sitcom,
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Speaker 2: We're not saints. We're just three adults who care about
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Speaker 2: the same two kids and decided that getting along was
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Speaker 2: better than burning it all down or burning out. This
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Speaker 2: can work, obviously for the right people. It can be
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Speaker 2: very complicated and difficult for most everyone else. But good
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Speaker 2: for them, I mean, they've figured out a way to
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Speaker 2: kind of hack the system. We know that the cost
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Speaker 2: of homes is high and has been since COVID, so yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know, I don't know specifically a whole lot about
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Speaker 2: real estate in Scotland. However, I can imagine it's also
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Speaker 2: pretty high there. So yeah, I mean, good for them
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Speaker 2: for figuring out another way to try to make things work,
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Speaker 2: all right. One more thing on relationships ending. Basically they
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Speaker 2: say that in the breakup. Some folks from gen Z
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Speaker 2: say that the hardest part about breaking up is solved
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Speaker 2: by AI. New survey found forty one percent of gen
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Speaker 2: X respondents I'm sorry gen Z respondents Z not X
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Speaker 2: said that they've used AI to help end relationship writing,
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Speaker 2: breakup text apologies, manage conflicts. Women slightly more likely than
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Speaker 2: men to let AI handle the breakups forty six percent
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Speaker 2: of women thirty eight percent of men. From gen Z,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I could program AI to say it's not you,
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Speaker 2: it's me and move on, but apparently it takes smarter
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Speaker 2: people than me to figure out all the nuance that
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Speaker 2: goes with it. That'll do it for this Monday edition
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