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Maybe You Need to See Those Opinions · 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 1: your day. You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday morning, fifteenth day of January. I'm west Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. We don't do a lot of weather on
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  Speaker 2: the show. That's not something that we do. We talk
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  Speaker 2: about it when it is some sort of a significant event. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: bump the microphone there. When it's a significant event, when
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  Speaker 2: it's some sort of major thing, especially when it's going
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  Speaker 2: to hit a significant part of our listening area, our
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  Speaker 2: home base listening area. I know we have people that
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  Speaker 2: listen all over the world. Thank you for that. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, if you're listening in another country, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of cool. It's kind of a cool thought. Some of you,
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  Speaker 2: I know, like who you are based on where you're
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  Speaker 2: listening and based on how many times you're listening in
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  Speaker 2: those sorts of things. But those of you listening in
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  Speaker 2: really sort of random places. Thanks for that, those of
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  Speaker 2: you listening. And I know we picked up a following
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  Speaker 2: of some sort in the UK and it's a nice
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  Speaker 2: little following there, but predominantly this is in My Australian
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  Speaker 2: family listens down there from time to time, so I
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  Speaker 2: can see that. But what's we're primarily here in the
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  Speaker 2: southeastern part of the US. Whether you have lived here
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  Speaker 2: and then gone elsewhere. Some folks that were stationed at
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  Speaker 2: Fort Benning slash Fort Moore slash Fort Benning again and
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  Speaker 2: maybe moved on somewhere else, and you know, listen to
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  Speaker 2: the radio show and now you're listening to this and
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  Speaker 2: thank you for that. You still have a piece of
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  Speaker 2: you here. A lot of people talk about how they
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  Speaker 2: leave a piece of themselves at Fort Benning or in
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  Speaker 2: Columbus and in some cases plan to come back here
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  Speaker 2: after they've finished their time in the military. They like
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  Speaker 2: to tire here. So if that's you and it affects you,
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  Speaker 2: then you know what I'm talking about. As far as
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  Speaker 2: this region, and we are a place that does not
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  Speaker 2: typically get certain types of weather very often. Our snow
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  Speaker 2: events are pretty uncommon here. We go sometimes a really
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  Speaker 2: long time in between. It is rare for us to have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, multiple snow events in the same year or
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  Speaker 2: you know, back to back years. That's not overly common.
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  Speaker 2: It happened sometimes, But we have a situation as of now.
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  Speaker 2: The latest model, at least from my in house meteorologist
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  Speaker 2: and I will tell you this. I saw yesterday, late
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  Speaker 2: in the day yesterday one of the news local news
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  Speaker 2: people that I follow posted something about how we had
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  Speaker 2: to be aware of the fact that this was kind
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  Speaker 2: of on the horizon, possibly this weekend. Luke's been telling
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  Speaker 2: me this now for well over a week, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: just I feel like my son is quickly becoming the
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  Speaker 2: most trusted name in weather in our community. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: he's been talking about how there's a possibility, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a few weeks out that this was going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: One of the days that we had a possibility from
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  Speaker 2: his perspective two weeks ago, was actually today, we had
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  Speaker 2: a chance that there was going to be some at
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  Speaker 2: least icy rain and maybe some snow in the forecast
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  Speaker 2: for today, And now that's changed quite drastically. But Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night, Sunday morning, this is a possibility. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a possibility now for a couple of weeks, but it's
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  Speaker 2: now that And it's not to say that the local
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  Speaker 2: news people I'm friends with, some of the local newspeople
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  Speaker 2: that are weather people, I should say specifically newspeople, but
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  Speaker 2: the weather people that have been holding off on this
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  Speaker 2: they know they can't talk about it two weeks out.
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  Speaker 2: It would people would go crazy. They would buy all
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  Speaker 2: the milk, they'd buy all the bread, and they'd buy
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  Speaker 2: all the toilet paper, all the kans of soup, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, we might we might be snowed in for
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  Speaker 2: a day, maybe two. I know we had a good
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  Speaker 2: little stretch of it last year. I know that. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what exactly what, And Luke is telling
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  Speaker 2: me that there's a chance of some rain leading into it,
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  Speaker 2: and rain does not always bode well for accumulations and things.
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  Speaker 2: But he's giving me it feels like every thirty minute
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  Speaker 2: updates on what's going on with it. That's great. I
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  Speaker 2: love having that resource. It's a lot better than when
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  Speaker 2: I was a kid and all we could really do
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  Speaker 2: is just hope and pray and then wait wait for
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  Speaker 2: the news to come on that night, because back then
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  Speaker 2: you just didn't have access to news all the time.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a possibility for throughout the southeast, and I
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  Speaker 2: know that there's this is something that will uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: could have an impact. At some of the weather models
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  Speaker 2: were showing possibility down into Florida and parts of Florida
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  Speaker 2: at least, and then up into the Carolina's getting a
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  Speaker 2: significant amount. And you know all of that. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to sit here and give you the full weather forecast,
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  Speaker 2: because there's no telling when you're may be listening to
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  Speaker 2: this next week and it's already happened or not happened
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. But I'm passing on the information for my
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  Speaker 2: in house meteorologist because he uses his phone to track
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  Speaker 2: the weather for me, so we can write off his
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  Speaker 2: phone bill. That's that's that's what I'm getting at. So
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  Speaker 2: as long as you know that I have an in
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  Speaker 2: house meteorologist who's using his his cell phone to track
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  Speaker 2: the weather, I think that justifies, you know, writing off
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  Speaker 2: at least part of that's primarily what he uses his
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  Speaker 2: phone for. Honestly, he doesn't really do much else. Not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of phone calls, not a lot of texting.
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  Speaker 2: Mainly checking the weather. That's pretty much what he does
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  Speaker 2: with it. And when there's an opportunity to say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: maybe some snow and then off and when it's gonna rain,
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  Speaker 2: he'll tell us to the minute it's gonna rain seven seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: and then you go all right, And then at seven
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  Speaker 2: seventeen there's the rain. He did it for the rain
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend. He told Jill. He text Mom, tell
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  Speaker 2: her that it's going to rain in about three minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Sure enough, there was. Three minutes later, rain came down.
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  Speaker 2: She was walking the dog. So anyway, that's a possibility
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  Speaker 2: for parts of the country. I know some parts of
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  Speaker 2: the country benill with snow already, but for us here
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  Speaker 2: in the Southeast, it's hit or miss. We don't know
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  Speaker 2: what we're gonna get, how much we're gonna get, if
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna happen. And honestly, I haven't really checked with
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  Speaker 2: him this morning yet. He's not up yet, but he'll
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  Speaker 2: be updating me very soon, I'm sure with all of
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  Speaker 2: the models and things as far as what's going on
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  Speaker 2: and what his thoughts are about the weekend. But no,
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  Speaker 2: that's possibility. Does that mean you go buy milk today? No,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean you have to go buy bread today. No,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't mean you have to do any of that.
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  Speaker 2: It just means you need to be aware, prepared because
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  Speaker 2: this is something that could happen for us this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to jump into this. Basically, I spent
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  Speaker 2: the whole show yesterday talking about something that I did
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  Speaker 2: with my kid, and I'm not gonna apologize for that.
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  Speaker 2: And I enjoyed the show. I enjoyed listening to the
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  Speaker 2: show again myself later in the day yesterday, and I
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  Speaker 2: make no apologies for that. It was a lesson and
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's one of those lessons if I
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  Speaker 2: can pass that along to people that need to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: But just remember, making those memories with your kids always
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  Speaker 2: worth it. And hopefully, like I said, he'll take it
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  Speaker 2: with him forever. I know I will. So that was
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  Speaker 2: the show for yesterday, and it kind of broke a
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  Speaker 2: little bit because I've been really talking about stuff in Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 2: and I know Minneapolis is a long way away. That's
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  Speaker 2: not our backyard. They've been dealing with snow like a
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  Speaker 2: lot already very different place in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 2: In a lot of ways, it's a very different place
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  Speaker 2: the state of Minnesota. It's a whole different world up there.
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  Speaker 2: And I've talked about, you know, the fraud, We've talked
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  Speaker 2: about the useful idiot that is their governor. They got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of useful idiots in place. They've got a
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  Speaker 2: useful idiot for a mayor in Minneapolis. They've got you know,
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  Speaker 2: various members of both both houses in Congress. They have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of useful idiots up there, that's what they have.
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  Speaker 2: And it's when it's packed with useful idiots. When it's
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  Speaker 2: loaded with useful idiots, you can kind of see things
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  Speaker 2: are not going to get fixed there for a while.
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  Speaker 2: And as long as ICE has been carrying out operations
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  Speaker 2: there in Minnesota, in Minneapolis, and people are still trying
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  Speaker 2: to defy them and do everything they can to stop them,
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  Speaker 2: and it just it's a hot situation and it's it's
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  Speaker 2: a state that we've We've went through this with George Floyd.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's just a state that is prone, that is
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  Speaker 2: primed to this kind of activity. The people that just
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  Speaker 2: want lawlessness, they want fear, they want terror. And I
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  Speaker 2: say all of that just to remind you of this
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  Speaker 2: other thing, because we talked about Trump, we talked about
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  Speaker 2: people's obsessions with them and how they're just letting it
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  Speaker 2: like they can say, you know, Trump is a cancer.
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  Speaker 2: But it's this hate for any politician on either side
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  Speaker 2: of the aisle. If that is your entire focus, that
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  Speaker 2: is your entire day, that is your entire week, that
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  Speaker 2: is everything that you do that itself is the cancer
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  Speaker 2: in your life. It's not the politician you're going and
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  Speaker 2: you don't know the politician. You don't know the person,
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  Speaker 2: You don't really know what they're doing every day. I
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  Speaker 2: can give you a general idea of what a lot
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  Speaker 2: of them are doing every day. I talk to some
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  Speaker 2: of them, you know, I know people who know people,
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  Speaker 2: and it's one of those things. I have these conversations
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  Speaker 2: with people and I can give you a general idea
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  Speaker 2: of what things are like. Sometimes this White House has
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  Speaker 2: been very efficient with let's get to the things that
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  Speaker 2: we prom almost we would do on the campaign. And
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  Speaker 2: then people are saying, well, they can't deport these people
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  Speaker 2: because again we're useful idiots. We need these people that
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  Speaker 2: we assume will be useful idiots. They will go to
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  Speaker 2: a place and settle, become part of the census, and
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  Speaker 2: they'll start getting us extra representation, and then we'll give
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  Speaker 2: them things, and then we'll make them very dependent on us,
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  Speaker 2: and then suddenly we have basically very loyal voters. Again,
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  Speaker 2: useful idiots. Back to my and you can't blame people
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  Speaker 2: that come from somewhere and they get told, hey, if
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  Speaker 2: you vote for me, I'm going to give you free stuff.
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  Speaker 2: They're coming from a place that is much further along
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  Speaker 2: in that lie right There. A lot of times they
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  Speaker 2: come from a place they've bought that there are people
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  Speaker 2: generations before them bought into the socialism or the communism,
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  Speaker 2: and then they don't understand that the useful idiots that
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  Speaker 2: are the soldiers that are out fighting are the first
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  Speaker 2: ones that when the takeover happens, leadership says, Yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: don't need you anymore. You're too violent. We don't we
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  Speaker 2: don't need you. You're we're gonna we're gonna go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and dismiss you. We don't need you around anymore. But
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  Speaker 2: that's another story. And I know a couple of things
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  Speaker 2: that we need to just sort of address in remind
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  Speaker 2: as we start working our way towards this weekend. Just
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  Speaker 2: a few things just to note, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people out there that aren't following the news at all.
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  Speaker 2: I know people that the only place they hear what's
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  Speaker 2: going on in the news is from this show. And
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  Speaker 2: I've had people tell me they don't want to hear
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  Speaker 2: it from they don't want they don't want to get
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  Speaker 2: this network's version of it, or that networks version of it,
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  Speaker 2: and they say, I play it fair. I do have
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  Speaker 2: my opinions, and they agree typically with my opinions, and
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  Speaker 2: that's flattering, thank you. But they at least appreciate where
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming from. And I've laid out before where I'm
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  Speaker 2: coming from. But there are there are people who don't
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  Speaker 2: follow all this. They get up every day and they
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  Speaker 2: go to work and they do their job, and they
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  Speaker 2: get home and they're focused on their kids. They're focused
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  Speaker 2: on trying to make sure they can pay the bills.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they've got a second or third job that they
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  Speaker 2: go to, and they're just not as absorbed in all
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  Speaker 2: of these things. They have a general idea. I talked
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  Speaker 2: to someone the other day who basically just was telling me, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm aware something happened in Minneapolis. That's it. I really
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  Speaker 2: don't know what it was. Somebody got shot, that was
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  Speaker 2: the take. There's a lot of people that that's where
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  Speaker 2: they are. They're not these soldiers in the streets. They
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  Speaker 2: don't even realize there's riots taking place because they're not
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  Speaker 2: happening in their backyard. They're not falling for the fear
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  Speaker 2: and the hate and all this. They're not falling for it.
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  Speaker 2: They're just going to work because they know media is
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  Speaker 2: probably gonna lie to us, and I'm just gonna go
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  Speaker 2: to work. That's all I can do. So that's one thing.
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  Speaker 2: Just remember that. There's also the people who get to
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  Speaker 2: this stage where we have events like this and they say, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna get off social media. I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 2: off of social media, and that's your right, your prerogative.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever you want to do, you can get off of it.
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  Speaker 2: They say it's just too much hatred and they can't
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  Speaker 2: stand seeing people that have different opinions to them, and
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  Speaker 2: they struggle with it. They don't like it. They don't
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  Speaker 2: want to see all these people that are just spewing
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  Speaker 2: this hate from the other side. Let me just remind
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  Speaker 2: you of this. Two things about this one. You can
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  Speaker 2: always delete them from your friends list. You can always
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  Speaker 2: unfollow them, that's the one. Like you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: read their messages. You don't have to. I have very
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  Speaker 2: dear friends that I do not care what they think.
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  Speaker 2: I don't respect a lot of their opinions because of
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  Speaker 2: I know where some of those things are coming from,
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  Speaker 2: and it doesn't bother me that they have a different
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  Speaker 2: opinion than me. I don't need to hear it. I
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  Speaker 2: don't need to see it. And if we had a
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  Speaker 2: conversation faced face about it, which I wouldn't really want
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  Speaker 2: to do, because as I've said before, I'm not evangelical
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  Speaker 2: about this. This isn't my I don't have to this
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  Speaker 2: isn't my pulpit when I do this, My pulpit on
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  Speaker 2: this show is actually more about my faith than it
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  Speaker 2: is about my politics. And I say that all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Politics takes a major back seat to my faith. My
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  Speaker 2: faith guides my politics, not the other way around. So
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  Speaker 2: when someone clearly their religion is influenced and basically designed
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  Speaker 2: by their politics, I don't respect it. I just don't.
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  Speaker 2: That's not they're not doing religion right. They're just not
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  Speaker 2: and they're not doing themselves a favor. See, they're not
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  Speaker 2: getting the things out of this life. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: people look at religion and they go, it's about the afterlife, man,
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  Speaker 2: Everything is about the afterlife. But if you're doing it
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  Speaker 2: right here, you know, and you're really trying to connect
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  Speaker 2: with God and what God wants, and you're not reading
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  Speaker 2: the Bible and trying to make it say what you
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  Speaker 2: want it to say, and you're truly open to say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: when you said this in the Bible, when it was
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  Speaker 2: written in the Bible, and this is your word, did
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  Speaker 2: you mean it? When you're asking those questions, you're disconnecting
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  Speaker 2: from it here in this world. And it's possible to
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  Speaker 2: enjoy some of that afterlife here in this world. That's
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  Speaker 2: all I'm getting at. So it's hard for me to
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  Speaker 2: say I'm going to read everything everyone posts. However, when
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  Speaker 2: someone has a different opinion, it's not for me to
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  Speaker 2: say they don't have a right to have it, because
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  Speaker 2: they do. I just don't have to read it. But
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  Speaker 2: the other part of it is this, the people who
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  Speaker 2: get angered when they see someone as a different opinion
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  Speaker 2: than them. Maybe that's an opportunity for us to go,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, let me take a minute and see
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  Speaker 2: what other people think, because that's another thing. We don't
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  Speaker 2: do that anymore. It's you're bad, I'm good, and gur
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  Speaker 2: and shake our fists at each other, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people do. It's not a terrible thing
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  Speaker 2: to understand and know that other people have other opinions,
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  Speaker 2: and it's okay. You don't have to agree with everything
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  Speaker 2: they said. You don't you didn't have to agree with everything.
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk said to be upset that he was murdered
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  Speaker 2: for having a different opinion than I don't know a
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  Speaker 2: chunk of the country. I don't know how many. I
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  Speaker 2: really don't know how many. But the fact that there
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  Speaker 2: are people that can't even hear a different opinion without
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  Speaker 2: getting angry, that's that's a problem. Maybe you don't need
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  Speaker 2: to get up. Maybe you need to be on social media.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds weird, it feels weird saying it, but maybe
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  Speaker 2: you do. Maybe you need a little bit larger bubble.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you don't need to unfollow people. I mean the
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  Speaker 2: people that I've unfollowed. It's not because I can't read
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  Speaker 2: what they wrote. It's just where I know what their
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  Speaker 2: argument is. I already know what they think about many
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  Speaker 2: when Minneapolis happens, I go, hey, I know what these
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  Speaker 2: people already think. I know what they think. I don't
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  Speaker 2: need I know that they have those opinions. But if
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  Speaker 2: it bothers you that other people have different opinions and
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  Speaker 2: that's the difference, it doesn't bother me. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: have your opinions. I can think that they're wrong, but
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't bother me because I understand now the people
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  Speaker 2: that think you're supposed to go out and get in
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  Speaker 2: front of a car or drive around and obstruct federal agents,
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  Speaker 2: that that bothers me. But that's different than just I
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  Speaker 2: have a different opinion. That's different. I mean, I can
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  Speaker 2: see sometimes the people being the useful idiots in their
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  Speaker 2: posts and I go, yeah, that's concerning. I hate to
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  Speaker 2: think that they don't realize that they would just be
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  Speaker 2: a pawn if they actually got active and did things.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe, just maybe before you bail on it, you
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  Speaker 2: can filter some of the stuff out your frequent offenders,
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  Speaker 2: but it might still be a good idea for you
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  Speaker 2: to be around to see every now and then what
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  Speaker 2: other people think, because it's the rejection of conversation that
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  Speaker 2: leads us into a very dangerous path because we don't
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  Speaker 2: want to even have a conversation because you know what,
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  Speaker 2: if you have a conversation and you have a small
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  Speaker 2: little debate, the other person might win. That's what they
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  Speaker 2: hated about Charlie Kirk so much. That's a big part
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  Speaker 2: of what they hated about him, and that's why he
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  Speaker 2: had to be silenced, because he was winning those debates.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of those things that when you're watching it
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  Speaker 2: after the break. So there's a startup company called Groove Space.
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  Speaker 2: They have officially opened reservations for a luxury hotel on
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  Speaker 2: the Moon. Yeah, there's not a luxury hotel on the
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  Speaker 2: Moon yet. They are accepting though early bird deposits of
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  Speaker 2: a million dollars. The company plans to launch its first
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  Speaker 2: inflatable habitat for guests by twenty thirty two, eventually upgrading
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  Speaker 2: to a more prominent structure built out of moon bricks
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  Speaker 2: made out of lunar soil. While the first test missions
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  Speaker 2: are scheduled to last off in just three years, the
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  Speaker 2: company's goal is to turn the Moon into a legitimate
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  Speaker 2: tourist destination. If they pull it off, the future of
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  Speaker 2: space won't just be about the ride there. It'll be
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  Speaker 2: having a fancy place to stay once you arrive. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Sean Cruson and I have talked about this on the
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  Speaker 2: Mateive Stars podcast. Some of these companies, and we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about this particular company as well. Inflatable habitats that will
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  Speaker 2: be the first thing they've talked about doing. Those in
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  Speaker 2: space actually like little space stations that are inflatable. So look,
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  Speaker 2: taking those early deposits interesting. I hope they're refundable deposits.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know if they're going to be able
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  Speaker 2: to get all that's done in six years. Maybe depends
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  Speaker 2: on how things go with the Artemis missions and how
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  Speaker 2: all that plays out. But I wish them the best.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to think that I could go and stay
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  Speaker 2: on the moon. I just don't have a spare million
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  Speaker 2: dollars to do that with. So we'll see. With health
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  Speaker 2: line can be between dedicated athlete and addictive behavior gets blurred.
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  Speaker 2: There's not a huge leap from one to the next,
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of people that are addicted to it.
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  Speaker 2: But I know people that go to the gym and
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  Speaker 2: they see people that are addicted to it. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, a little bit concerning those big touch
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  Speaker 2: screens and cars certainly look cool, and it turns out
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  Speaker 2: that that look might be a little dangerous. A study
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  Speaker 2: led by the University of Melbourne found that touch screens
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  Speaker 2: demand drivers' eyes, hands and brain, just like texting and driving.
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  Speaker 2: And these touchscreen menus now controlled just about everything, adjusting climate, wipers, headlights,
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  Speaker 2: which means they found that can cause slower reaction times
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  Speaker 2: and drifting in simulations. So Australia's new safety watch dog,
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  Speaker 2: called an CAP, will now require physical buttons for essentials
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  Speaker 2: like headlights and wipers. Europe following suit. Voice commands are
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  Speaker 2: a bit safer, but they still distract more than just buttons,
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  Speaker 2: so possibility we could be pulling a one to eighty
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  Speaker 2: and going back to a more low tech setup for
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  Speaker 2: vehicles rather than these fancy ones. I've always wondered that
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  Speaker 2: about those screens. Now my method of dealing with that
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  Speaker 2: is I just have an old car. I don't have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about those screens when I'm driving a car.
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  Speaker 2: That has those screens as in someone else's car. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot going on there. There's just a lot
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  Speaker 2: going on on those screens. So yeah, I've always wondered
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  Speaker 2: about how not if it's a you know, if it's
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  Speaker 2: a phone, No, if it's a giant screen that you
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  Speaker 2: can see while you're driving, sure go for it. It
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  Speaker 2: is interesting some people have still not gone back to
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  Speaker 2: the office. Yes, that is still a thing. People are
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  Speaker 2: still working from home post COVID. I would assume if
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  Speaker 2: your job is allowing you to work from home at
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  Speaker 2: this point, you may not be going back to the
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  Speaker 2: office anytime soon. However, some will be heading back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. A twenty twenty three report estimated full
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  Speaker 2: time office workers shelling out around two hundred and forty
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  Speaker 2: dollars annually just to get to work, and that means childcare, clothing, commuting, lunch, parking,
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  Speaker 2: all that fun tolls in some cases. Payroll company Sencipe
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  Speaker 2: dug deeper and found the numbers very widely by state,
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  Speaker 2: and the numbers only account for costs of commuting and
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  Speaker 2: food expenses like childcare, clothing, house cleaning, dog walking, and
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  Speaker 2: more not included. In Hawaii, workers are spending about nine thousand,
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  Speaker 2: six hundred and fifty one dollars a year, about twenty
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  Speaker 2: five hundred on commuting and seventy one hundred on meals.
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  Speaker 2: Pack a sandwich. Nevada isn't far behind at ninety three
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  Speaker 2: hundred and ninety eight dollars. California workers expect to pay
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  Speaker 2: around eighty eight hundred and forty four dollars New York
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  Speaker 2: eighty six thirty nine, Wyoming eighty four hundred. So is
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  Speaker 2: that because they got longer to drive for the commute?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it depends on what part of Wyoming right where
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  Speaker 2: you're gotta go, where you've got to get to. I
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