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Democrats Gave Away Their Tolerance Label · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 2: Nineteenth day of November. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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Speaker 2: together in high school. We had a great conversation. We
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Speaker 2: just caught up a little bit in general, and then
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Speaker 2: we talked about basically that catchup just involved us realizing
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Speaker 2: how old we are. And then the second part of
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Speaker 2: the conversation was largely on the election and how things went,
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Speaker 2: and just a good conversation about kind of this trend
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Speaker 2: of where things are and where we're going with it.
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Speaker 2: And I genuinely think that this change that has taken
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Speaker 2: place culturally on the political spectrum at least largely has
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Speaker 2: to do with tolerance. And it's just an interesting time
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Speaker 2: that we have Republicans as being you know, perceived as
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Speaker 2: the more tolerant party. I feel like that's always kind
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Speaker 2: of been the case, but never gotten the you know,
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Speaker 2: credit for it. I know some people are probably rolling
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Speaker 2: their eyes and going, ah, no, no, they've never always
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Speaker 2: been the more tolerant one. I think so because I
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Speaker 2: think Republicans maybe we're more welcoming to everyone. They didn't
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Speaker 2: do as great of a job of bringing people in,
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Speaker 2: and I think maybe that's the difference, and now they're
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Speaker 2: doing a good job of bringing people in. I felt
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Speaker 2: like the more conservative approach on issues like gay marriage,
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Speaker 2: you know, years ago, back in the double aughts when
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Speaker 2: that was a big thing. I just felt like it
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Speaker 2: was a more conservative approach, the more libertarian approach to
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Speaker 2: all of it. I understand that there was this perception
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Speaker 2: of folks on the right saying, well, marriage is sacred,
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Speaker 2: and we can't, you know, damage the sanctity of marriage
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Speaker 2: by allowing gay marriage. And I always felt like the
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Speaker 2: more conservative, true conservative philosophy on this is why is
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Speaker 2: the government involved. That's a true conservative approach. That's a
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Speaker 2: true libertarian approach. Smaller government, get your hands out of
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Speaker 2: my pocket, that's the essence of it. And I felt
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Speaker 2: like if conservatives had done a better job of saying, look,
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Speaker 2: we're not going to sit here and tell you that
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Speaker 2: we want you to get married, but we're going to
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Speaker 2: tell you nobody should stop you. And of course that
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Speaker 2: might have some how circumvented this trend of you know,
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Speaker 2: we went to the left saying, well, you have to
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Speaker 2: not only approve of it, you have to support it,
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Speaker 2: and you have to tell us that what we're doing
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Speaker 2: is great and it's what we should be doing. And
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Speaker 2: even if it's against what you believe, you've got to participate.
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Speaker 2: If we ask it to make a cake or officiate
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Speaker 2: the wedding or whatever it is. We want your band
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Speaker 2: to play, we want your gospel group to come in
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Speaker 2: and perform. But so I think that Republicans definitely didn't
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Speaker 2: do a great job of bringing people in. But anytime
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Speaker 2: they'd tried, it was always sort of you can't do that.
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Speaker 2: That's our thing. You can't try to appoint a black
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Speaker 2: woman to the Supreme Court, you can't try to appoint
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Speaker 2: a Hispanic man, a Latin man to the Supreme Court.
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Speaker 2: That's our thing. How dare you try to get into
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Speaker 2: our business. This is what we do. And Republicans just
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Speaker 2: didn't do a great job of making those kinds of
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Speaker 2: things happen. If they did a convention and they made
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Speaker 2: sure they were more inclusive different groups of people. The
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Speaker 2: you know, the networks tried to do everything they could
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Speaker 2: to not show you those people that were in attendance
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Speaker 2: anytime that the cameras were, you know, they were panting
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Speaker 2: over large groups of white men, and that's all they
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Speaker 2: wanted you to see and make you think there was
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Speaker 2: a perception that was being painted. It's part of the
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Speaker 2: optics of TV and now that people are not so
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Speaker 2: much paying as much attention to TV, and that podcasting
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Speaker 2: is is kind of what helped Trump get there. It's
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Speaker 2: what helped in a big way. And you know, radio
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Speaker 2: is dying. TV in a lot of ways is dying,
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Speaker 2: at least as far as the news channels and things.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't think they're going away. And I
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Speaker 2: know there's this report that they're you know, but they're struggling.
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Speaker 2: They're struggling, and radio is struggling. And this isn't coming
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Speaker 2: from a disgruntled you know, radio guy. This is coming
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Speaker 2: from someone who saw the writing on the wall a
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Speaker 2: long time ago and realized, you know, this is where
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Speaker 2: it's all heading and I you know, for year decades,
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Speaker 2: more than ten years, I would say close to to
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Speaker 2: you know, twenty years I've been talking about this, go
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Speaker 2: back to four when I used to tell people this
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Speaker 2: is this is where this is going. Now, I didn't
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Speaker 2: fully imagine it to this level, didn't fully perceive it
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Speaker 2: to this level. But yes, this you know, pre recorded
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Speaker 2: people all over the country and world telling you, hey,
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Speaker 2: here's the new song, and I'm pretending that I'm live
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Speaker 2: and they're not. I mean, that's where it is. So
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Speaker 2: radio struggling, print media, struggling, TV news, your local news
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Speaker 2: is still going to be there for you. I'm not
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Speaker 2: going to knock them in any way, and good for them.
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Speaker 2: They're still providing what is, you know, low cost on
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Speaker 2: their end and its content. I you know, I don't
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Speaker 2: know a lot of people who still watch the TV
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Speaker 2: news just to be honest as far as the local,
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Speaker 2: but there are obviously still people that do that. But podcasting,
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Speaker 2: digital media, that's where it is. That's where things are going.
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Speaker 2: And Republicans finally fully utilize that and realize this is
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Speaker 2: where we're going to bring people in and furthering that,
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Speaker 2: you know, one of the it's not really a news show.
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Speaker 2: It's an opinion show. Some people perceive it as a
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Speaker 2: news show. And we talked about him a little bit
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Speaker 2: lately because he's kind of realized the where things are
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Speaker 2: going as well. And that's Bill Maher, his show on
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Speaker 2: HBO Real Time, but he also hosts a podcast called
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Speaker 2: Club Random where he brings in celebrities. Now, Bill Maher
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Speaker 2: and I have something in common. We've both interviewed William
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Speaker 2: Shatner and I guess this is the latest edition of
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Speaker 2: Club Random. He had Bill Shatner on to talk about
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Speaker 2: the election, and Shatner says he's confused. He doesn't understand
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Speaker 2: why Kamala Harris didn't win the election. Just doesn't understand
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Speaker 2: at all, and it just can't quite grasp it. This
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Speaker 2: is a quote from mar to Shatner. Conservatives are much
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Speaker 2: more tolerant of people that they don't like. It's the
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Speaker 2: liberals who are purests, especially the ones in this town
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Speaker 2: referring to la They are the ones who say, if
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Speaker 2: you don't agree with me one million percent, I don't
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Speaker 2: even want to know you. That's one of the reasons
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Speaker 2: they lost. They have a bad attitude. This is something
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Speaker 2: that I've been talking to you about now for a
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Speaker 2: little while, and I shared with you last week, you know,
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Speaker 2: and I've shared it a few times. I think the
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Speaker 2: story going back to four when a work colleague told
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Speaker 2: me that we can't be friends. This was somebody in
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Speaker 2: la told me, we can't be friends if you don't
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Speaker 2: vote the way that I vote. That's right in lockstep
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Speaker 2: with what mar is talking about there in that quote.
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Speaker 2: And sadly that is where we've come. That thing that
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Speaker 2: happened to me in four and that was my first
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Speaker 2: real personal example with it. Now, this wasn't someone that
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Speaker 2: I you know, we stayed in touch very loosely. We
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Speaker 2: had a work relationship. I didn't work at the same
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Speaker 2: company as him, but our jobs overlapped, and you know,
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Speaker 2: true to his word, we weren't really I don't know
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Speaker 2: that we were friends anyway. I don't know who would
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Speaker 2: tell their friend that, But apparently there are people that
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Speaker 2: are doing that. And we're getting closer to Thanksgiving and
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Speaker 2: people are saying, Ah, you're not going to be welcome
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Speaker 2: at my table. You're not going to be where they're
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Speaker 2: to eat food with me. Shatner confused about basically, like
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Speaker 2: why people didn't like Harris and thought, oh, well she's great,
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Speaker 2: she's a black woman, and combining several trends and he said,
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Speaker 2: you know, talking about people, inflation, prices have come down,
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Speaker 2: the economy is good. I don't know why they voted
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Speaker 2: against her, against the party, And I would argue that
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Speaker 2: it was Democrats who were asking their supporters, their typical
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Speaker 2: supporters to vote against Trump and not necessarily vote for Harris.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's the difference, and people saw through it.
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Speaker 2: And you know, William Shatner is a smart guy. He's
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Speaker 2: a smart guy. I've interviewed him. I look up to
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Speaker 2: him as an interviewer, and I, you know, I may
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Speaker 2: I just want to to say, like inflation, to say
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Speaker 2: inflation is down doesn't mean prices are down. And I
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Speaker 2: would just you know, have this observation that you hear
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Speaker 2: people say, well, inflation down. Harris was using that on
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Speaker 2: her campaign. Inflation's down. Inflation isn't even down as low
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Speaker 2: as it was when Biden and Harris took office. Prices
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Speaker 2: don't come down when inflation comes down. You're not getting
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Speaker 2: a negative inflation, You're just getting a lot. Inflation is
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Speaker 2: kind of constantly, you know, you know, a few percentage
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Speaker 2: points going up. That's what's happening. It's always just kind
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Speaker 2: of gradually going up. It's when it spikes to the
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Speaker 2: highest level we've ever seen, and then the prices spike.
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Speaker 2: Even if the rate of inflation goes down, the prices
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Speaker 2: are still high. People are still feeling it when they
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Speaker 2: buy groceries. I was talking to someone yesterday. Different person
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Speaker 2: was telling me about their son having Celiac disease and
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Speaker 2: how they have to, you know, they have to buy
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Speaker 2: gluten free foods for really the whole family does it
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Speaker 2: because their son does it. And how much more expensive
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Speaker 2: that can be. I can just own imagine when you
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Speaker 2: have these special needs, is for special dietary needs, or
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Speaker 2: you're trying to eat healthy, any of those things compounded
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Speaker 2: with the extra cost of just buying everyday things. Back
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Speaker 2: to the subject of Harris being a black woman, you know,
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Speaker 2: Mars said, you know, it's identity politics. That's not a candidate,
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Speaker 2: and black men and women made their point about all
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Speaker 2: of it as far as them not being the candidate,
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Speaker 2: and how it was actually Hispanic men or Hispanics in
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Speaker 2: general who kind of put the exclamation point on the
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Speaker 2: whole the whole election on where things went. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: I think mar Is in some ways he's accurate in
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Speaker 2: all of this because he's right. Identity politics isn't going
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Speaker 2: to be the way that's going to win you a race,
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Speaker 2: and this idea and I wish we could just kill
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Speaker 2: it now. But when people say things like Oprah should run,
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Speaker 2: or you know, Michelle Obama should run, or the Rock
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Speaker 2: should run, whatever, these are all things. It doesn't mean
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Speaker 2: that they couldn't win. But just because they ran doesn't
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Speaker 2: necessarily mean they'd be good at the job. I know
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Speaker 2: there are people who think, well, if Michelle Obama had
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Speaker 2: just you know, become the candidate and they'd been a primary,
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Speaker 2: and I don't I don't know that she wants it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that she she said repeatedly that she
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Speaker 2: doesn't want to be president. I don't know that the
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Speaker 2: former first lady. I don't know that automatically qualifies you.
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Speaker 2: I understand Donald Trump was a businessman. Michelle Obama apparently
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Speaker 2: is a brilliant lawyer or has a law degree, and
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Speaker 2: you know, people applaud her skills as a lawyer or
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Speaker 2: you know, I don't know, I don't know anything about
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Speaker 2: her law. I don't, you know, make any TV shows
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Speaker 2: about her. She's not the new Mattlock, that's Kathy Bates.
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Speaker 2: But you know that certainly would put her in conversations
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Speaker 2: to be someone to do this. But you know, we're
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Speaker 2: basing her credentials on she was the first lady. And
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Speaker 2: it's not to say that the first Lady can't learn
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Speaker 2: a lot while she's there. I mean, Jill Biden apparently
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Speaker 2: is running cabinet meetings according to reports. We know Hillary
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Speaker 2: Clinton did a lot when she was in there, but
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Speaker 2: I just I feel like it's almost like I went
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Speaker 2: to a small school for high school. It's a really
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Speaker 2: small school, and there were people in the school that
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Speaker 2: felt like you were only allowed to date people that
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Speaker 2: went to your school. When someone would show up for
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Speaker 2: a school event with someone that did not go to
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Speaker 2: our school, that was like, who's that. Yeah, that's okay,
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Speaker 2: you're allowed to date outside the school. I know people
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Speaker 2: that not only you know, married people in the school
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Speaker 2: and got divorced and then married someone else that was
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Speaker 2: in our high school, you know, years later, thirty years.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with that. That's fine, But my point is,
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Speaker 2: you know, you can you can venture out. Doesn't mean
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Speaker 2: you have to, but I'm just pointing out the fact
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Speaker 2: that there's some other options other than Hey, these are
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Speaker 2: the names that we bring up every couple of years
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Speaker 2: when it comes to candidates for president. These are people
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Speaker 2: that we have to bring up every single time because
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Speaker 2: you know, they're they're going to be our last ditch
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Speaker 2: kind of hail Mary situation. To use a sports analogy.
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Speaker 2: So I think mar is on you know, he's saying
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Speaker 2: some of the things that I said. You know, I
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Speaker 2: do think that this idea of pushing people away on
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Speaker 2: the left ultimately pushed people away. What a surprise. I
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Speaker 2: think people see that and Republicans have to try to
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Speaker 2: hold on to it. They've got to figure out what
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Speaker 2: they're going to do to keep that momentum. I mean,
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Speaker 2: we're already in I mean, I know, we get a
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Speaker 2: little break. We've got to already start thinking about midterms.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's two years away. Time to already start
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Speaker 2: thinking about that, already, start figuring out. Democrats are trying
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Speaker 2: to figure out how do we fix things. You got
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Speaker 2: some folks on the left, some talk show hosts, the
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Speaker 2: Morning Joe hosts went to meet with Trump. Well, we're
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Speaker 2: gonna have to get along with him. Now they feel like, now,
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Speaker 2: I guess you get into this sort of lame duck
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Speaker 2: situation where you're going, you know, he's got his four
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Speaker 2: years and then he's done. We're gonna have to figure
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Speaker 2: out how to get along with him and what can
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Speaker 2: we do. We'll see how long that lasts or how
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Speaker 2: much of that works. But if they start to jump
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Speaker 2: on board, if you start seeing the ladies from the
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Speaker 2: view trying to kiss up to him, things could really
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Speaker 2: start to get interesting over the next couple of years.
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Speaker 2: had its comeback, and I'm assuming this is the likely
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Speaker 2: favorite to win if you're in the gambling world. Demure,
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Speaker 2: all right, I'm giving you the official Oxford definition of
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Speaker 2: a person reserved or restrained. An appearance of behavior of
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Speaker 2: clothing not showy, ostentatious, or overly revealing. I would guess
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Speaker 2: that's the favorite to win. Lore a body of facts,
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Speaker 2: background information, anecdotes relating to someone or something, regardless of
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Speaker 2: knowledge required for full understanding or informed discussion of the
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Speaker 2: subject in question. Brain rot supposed deterioration of a person's
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Speaker 2: mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of
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Speaker 2: over consumption of material considered to be trivial or unchallenging.
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Speaker 2: And this really nowadays pertains to know. Online content or whatever.
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Speaker 2: Dynamic pricing, Hello, Wendy's, the practice of varying the price
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Speaker 2: of a product or service to reflect a changing market condition,
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Speaker 2: like a higher price at a certain time of greater demand.
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Speaker 2: All right. Slop art writing or other content generated using
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Speaker 2: artificial intelligence, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate and
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Speaker 2: intrusive way, characterizes being low quality and authentic and accurate. Slop.
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Speaker 2: It's an ai thing romanticy genre of fiction, combining elements
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Speaker 2: of romantic fiction and fantasy, typically featuring themes of magic,
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Speaker 2: the supernatural, or adventure alongside a central romantic storyline. I
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Speaker 2: mean slop, demure, dynamic pricing, I feel like the brain rot.
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Speaker 2: I mean, any of those could, but Demure seems to
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Speaker 2: be a strong candidate. I would think. I think the
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Speaker 2: Demure people will probably step up. Have you seen sweatpant genes?
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Speaker 2: They're having their time right now. Sweatpants that look like
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Speaker 2: jeans are trending, ranging price from about thirty six dollars
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Speaker 2: to fifty five dollars. I guess thirty six on Amazon,
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Speaker 2: fifty five from the Gap one hundred and fifty eight
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Speaker 2: Rag and Bone, and I guess probably there's more higher
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Speaker 2: price versions of them. And it's basically, you know, I guess,
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Speaker 2: just in time for Thanksgiving, you wear the sweatpant jeans.
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Speaker 2: You look like you're wearing jeans, but you're really wearing
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Speaker 2: those comfortable sweatpants and you can eat more. All right,
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Speaker 2: how about the idea of loud budgeting. This is something
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Speaker 2: you can think, I guess gen Z for It's basically
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Speaker 2: a way to keep your holiday spending on track instead
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Speaker 2: of silently stressing over finances over the holiday season, Folks
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Speaker 2: in gen Z are openly sharing their budget limits with
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Speaker 2: friends and family. That could prevent no more awkward moments
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Speaker 2: when you can't afford a fancy dinner, expensive gift exchange.
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Speaker 2: You're just upfront about your financial situation, and then that
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Speaker 2: reduces social pressure, making sure everyone's on the same page.
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Speaker 2: It's all about setting expectations early so you don't end
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Speaker 2: up broke to start twenty twenty five. That's a good idea.
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Speaker 2: It's a good strategy. I'm for it. I'm for it.
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Speaker 2: If you're planning on giving books as gifts this year,
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Speaker 2: you're not alone. Books remain a popular gift. According to
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Speaker 2: a new survey, fifty four percent of people planned to
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Speaker 2: buy one for a friend or relative. Whether or not
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Speaker 2: the recipient appreciates it will likely depend on the type
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Speaker 2: of book. Forty nine percent said they try to pick
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Speaker 2: out books on topics they know the recipient will be
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Speaker 2: interested in. Eighty percent said they feel confident in their
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Speaker 2: ability to pick something appropriate. According to this survey, the
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Speaker 2: most popular genres of books to give top of the
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Speaker 2: list mystery, thriller and suspense, action, adventure, biography, history, romance,
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Speaker 2: contemporary fiction, historical fiction, true crime, and then the classics
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Speaker 2: fall in there as well as twenty twenty four winds down.
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Speaker 2: The majority of America are looking back on the year
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Speaker 2: with a lot of financial regrets. According to a survey
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Speaker 2: by Nerdwallet, sixty nine percent of Americans say they regret
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Speaker 2: some of their money decisions they made this year, primarily
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Speaker 2: not saving enough for emergencies and financial goals. They said
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Speaker 2: they spent too much on entertainment, not enough on planning
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Speaker 2: for the future and improving their credit score. Gen Z
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Speaker 2: the most regretful generation eighty nine percent expressing financial regrets,
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Speaker 2: followed by Millennials, Gen X, and Baby boomers. And finally,
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Speaker 2: a new study found Americans are getting bigger and bigger,
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Speaker 2: not taller, though they say at the rate we're going,
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Speaker 2: by twenty fifty, four out of five adults in the
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Speaker 2: US will be overweight or obese. The research, reported in
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Speaker 2: The Lancet, reveals that in twenty five years, if current
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Speaker 2: trends continue, about two hundred and thirteen million Americans aged
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Speaker 2: twenty five and older will be overweight, as well as
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Speaker 2: more than forty five million children and young adults between
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Speaker 2: the ages of five and twenty four. They're not even
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Speaker 2: born yet. Even worse, more people are expected to be
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Speaker 2: obese rather than simply overweight. By twenty fifteen, Two in
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Speaker 2: three adults, one in three teens, one in five children
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Speaker 2: in the US expected to be obese, according to estimates
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