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Trump's Picks Are Stirring the Pot · 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: Monday morning, eighteenth day of November. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me plowing our way through this month of November.
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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving coming up fast, little over a week until that.
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Speaker 2: It's just all coming together. Man, it's flying right along.
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Speaker 2: I want to quickly mention you still have time to
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Speaker 2: get your tickets in advance from the River Center. Okay,
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Speaker 2: prices that you see online for tickets to the Nutcracker,
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Speaker 2: the Columbus Ballets presentation, the Annual Tradition. Don't miss out
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Speaker 2: tradition that is the Nutcracker, and the tickets are available
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Speaker 2: now to We got two shows. We have the show
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Speaker 2: that is on Saturday, that is an evening show, and
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Speaker 2: then there is a Sunday matine show December seventh and
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Speaker 2: eighth at the River Center in Columbus, Georgia. And that's
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Speaker 2: the other thing you want to make sure you're looking
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Speaker 2: make sure that's where you're going for all of your
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Speaker 2: to Columbus, Ohio. That's a different ballet. I'm sure it's
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Speaker 2: a perfectly good ballet. I'm sure they do a perfectly
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Speaker 2: fine job with their ballet. But that show does not
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Speaker 2: have me in it, and it does not have local
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Speaker 2: performers from the Chattahooche Valley area. So that's what you
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Speaker 2: want to make sure that you avoid. So you want
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Speaker 2: to go to the River Center and get your tickets
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Speaker 2: from their box office, or you can go through the
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Speaker 2: River Centers website and again Saturday, December seventh at seven
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Speaker 2: thirty pm. Sunday December eighth at two thirty pm. Now,
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Speaker 2: if you have kids in the school districts in the area,
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Speaker 2: and your kids already have their tickets for the shows
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Speaker 2: and they're coming as a group, they'll be doing that
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Speaker 2: for the Friday morning show. That one's not open to
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Speaker 2: the public, but you know your kids are going to
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Speaker 2: get a chance to check it out with us there,
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Speaker 2: So there you go. Get them through the River Center.
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Speaker 2: That's what you want to do, Rivercenter dot org. You
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Speaker 2: don't want to mess around anywhere else. Don't buy the
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Speaker 2: tickets anywhere else. Get your tickets now. Looking forward to it,
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Speaker 2: we had a great weekend of rehearsals my group, the
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Speaker 2: polis Chanels and the Mother Ginger. We worked hard on
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Speaker 2: our routine over the weekend and got some new stuff
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Speaker 2: we worked into it. I'm trying to do something very
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Speaker 2: different that I haven't done before, and I did it
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Speaker 2: for the first time over the weekend. Don't want to
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Speaker 2: spoil it, but it is me in you know, on
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Speaker 2: stilts in the giant hoop dress and managed to pull
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Speaker 2: it off without you know, falling out hurting myself. That's good.
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Speaker 2: That's the plan. That's the plan for the night of
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Speaker 2: the show. So really excited about my sixth time in
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Speaker 2: the role of Mother Ginger. So we hope to see
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Speaker 2: you there at the Nutcracker. All right, let's let's transition
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Speaker 2: a little bit over to some talk about we got
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Speaker 2: a few things with the selections for the cabinet positions
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Speaker 2: that former and future President Trump has made. First of all,
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Speaker 2: him showing up at the UFC fights. How great was that?
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Speaker 2: He comes walking in, He's got Speaker Johnson? Who else
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Speaker 2: with him? I know the Speaker of the House was
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Speaker 2: with him. You got the present elect, the Speaker of
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Speaker 2: the House, the pick for the health RFK Junior, who
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Speaker 2: has been nominated for that post. I think I saw
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Speaker 2: where Elon Musk was there, although I didn't actually see him.
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Speaker 2: I did see Kid Rock there. He is not nominated
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Speaker 2: for any positions, but it's wild scene. Man. They came
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Speaker 2: in thunderous applause, people excited. That's an indicator that things
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Speaker 2: have changed. They have changed drastically, and just the general
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Speaker 2: consensus of where things are in the country, in the world,
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Speaker 2: a lot of countries have seen this shift, this change
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Speaker 2: away from woke ideologies, has taken this step away from
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Speaker 2: a lot of that this lack of personal responsibility for things.
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Speaker 2: And we just hope that there's going to be some
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Speaker 2: momentum to this more than just a one time election thing. Now,
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Speaker 2: all of the picks that Rum has put out, some
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Speaker 2: of them have people saying absolutely the RFK Junior thing.
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Speaker 2: People are going to be skeptical about that, because you know,
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Speaker 2: he's been skeptical of some vaccines. He's skeptical about some
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Speaker 2: things as it pertains to foods and ingredients in our foods,
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Speaker 2: something that we need to be looking at anyway. I mean,
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Speaker 2: there are things that you know, we sit back as
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Speaker 2: a country sometimes and we say, you know, around the
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Speaker 2: world they've banned the following items from foods and we're
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Speaker 2: allowed to eat them here, but our you know, basically
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Speaker 2: our food and Drug administration and others, so well, these
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Speaker 2: are fine. There's nothing wrong with these things. And at
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Speaker 2: the very least, there's a lot of things that need
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Speaker 2: to be reevaluated. I mean, is that a fair assessment.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's supposed to be the way people say,
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Speaker 2: believe the science, follow the science. At the very least,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of things that should be reevaluated. Just
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Speaker 2: like a lot of people took a second look at
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Speaker 2: the COVID vaccines, and I know there's still some people
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Speaker 2: who are getting them. There's still some people who you know,
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Speaker 2: staying away from them completely, some that never got one
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Speaker 2: in the first place. I've seen a few cases lawsuits
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Speaker 2: where people have won because they were forced out of
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Speaker 2: their jobs for not getting them. And you know, hey, good, good,
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Speaker 2: if they're winning those I don't have a problem with
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Speaker 2: someone being able to win that. I don't understand where
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Speaker 2: the same people that scream my body my choice about
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Speaker 2: one issue don't feel the same way about it on
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Speaker 2: other issues. Especially when you're talking about a vaccine that
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Speaker 2: you know wasn't necessarily going to stop you from getting
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Speaker 2: it or stop other people from getting it. It was
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Speaker 2: just really, hey, it'll probably help you, you know, recover
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Speaker 2: a little faster. That should have been their choice. I think,
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Speaker 2: don't you think so? And I think that's part of
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Speaker 2: what our FK Junior, and I know he was an't
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Speaker 2: completely anti the COVID vaccine, I believe pardon me if
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Speaker 2: I'm wrong on that. That's my understanding of his stance
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Speaker 2: on it. But I don't have a problem with someone
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Speaker 2: who's a skeptic in these positions asking questions. That's the
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Speaker 2: problem is that we're running so many things on this
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Speaker 2: consensus basis, And where's the consensus coming from, coming from
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Speaker 2: one department in the country, coming from one group of people,
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Speaker 2: one group of scientists that are relying on federal funding
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Speaker 2: for things, or are we looking at the consensus around
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Speaker 2: the world, Because if we're talking about consensus, and we're
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Speaker 2: not talking about the countries that say no, no, you
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Speaker 2: don't want to put these food dyes in your food,
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Speaker 2: and you definitely don't want your kids consuming it every
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Speaker 2: single day and the cereals that they eat and the
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Speaker 2: beverages that they drink and the snacks that they consume.
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Speaker 2: So if we're talking about a consensus, maybe we should
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Speaker 2: look at that as part of the consensus. But even that,
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Speaker 2: that's not how science isn't about consensus. Science is about
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Speaker 2: testing it. Sciences about asking questions and being a skeptic.
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Speaker 2: So that's obviously one that was flagged. The Pete Hegseeth,
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Speaker 2: who is a veteran served in multiple wars, wrote a
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Speaker 2: book and he's written multiple books, but he's written a
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Speaker 2: book on ways to rebuild our military infrastructure, on ways
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Speaker 2: to improve it, mocked and criticized by some, you know,
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Speaker 2: high ranking officials that didn't appreciate what he wanted to
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Speaker 2: do with it. Donald Trump likes what he wants to
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Speaker 2: do with it, and that was the reason for the appointment.
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Speaker 2: And a lot of people said, well, who the hell's
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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth. Who is this guy? Why are we getting
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Speaker 2: a Fox News morning show host. He was mocked will
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Speaker 2: Be Goldberg and others. He's not even a regular show host.
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Speaker 2: He's just a weekend show host. Why does that matter?
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Speaker 2: What does that have to do with anything. That's such
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Speaker 2: a weird way to minimalize him. Oh so he's not
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Speaker 2: someone who spends all of his time blabbing on and
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Speaker 2: on on TV like some of the people who were
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Speaker 2: criticizing him. He just spends part of his time and
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Speaker 2: the rest of his time, I don't know, maybe looking
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Speaker 2: at the military and figuring out ways to improve it.
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Speaker 2: I'll admit I thought it was a strange pick, just
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Speaker 2: because you know, I know the guy's job. I know
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Speaker 2: what he does, but I also know that he did
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Speaker 2: serve and is a you know, decorated captain. I guess,
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Speaker 2: so this is you know typically you know, they get
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Speaker 2: generals and things that do this, right, that's normal, there's
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Speaker 2: normally that. But you know, didn't hate the pick. Thought
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Speaker 2: it would be interesting, certainly one of those things that'll
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Speaker 2: shake things up. But suddenly, as people around the country said, well,
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Speaker 2: who's this guy? Who is he? We don't even know
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Speaker 2: who he is. We know he's on Fox News, but
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Speaker 2: we don't know who he is, and they made fun
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Speaker 2: of him because you know, we don't know who he is.
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Speaker 2: Then suddenly there was a case that had been brought
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Speaker 2: up against him years ago, and now everybody knows who
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Speaker 2: he is, as people start digging around and really trying
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Speaker 2: to figure out why he should not be approved for
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Speaker 2: this position. And this is one of those things where
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Speaker 2: even even the wording of the way this is being covered,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's talking about heg Seth and talking about
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Speaker 2: Matt Gates, who is up for you know, the top
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Speaker 2: position in our you know, up for attorney general and
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Speaker 2: as far as in our Justice department. So yes, it
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Speaker 2: is valid to say there have been quite ethical questions
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Speaker 2: involve I thought the Matt Gates pick incredibly bold, but
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Speaker 2: it also kind of didn't seem like it was fully
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Speaker 2: like the pick. I mean, I was with a lot
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Speaker 2: of people I thought, this seems like we're throwing somebody
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Speaker 2: out at the attorney general position that is probably not
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Speaker 2: going to get approved. He's probably not going to get there.
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Speaker 2: There are a lot of Republicans who don't like him.
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Speaker 2: He was definitely one of those pot stirs in the
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Speaker 2: Speaker of the House changes that were going on. The
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Speaker 2: attacks on McCarthy. So Matt Gates, and look, I'm not
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Speaker 2: going to defend There's a lot of things behavior wise
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Speaker 2: that I'm not going to defend. And I don't I
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Speaker 2: know that there have been accusations with Gates. I know
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Speaker 2: that he was being investigated. I know that the House
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Speaker 2: was getting to a point where they were ready to
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Speaker 2: to lay out some of the accusations against Gates. As
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Speaker 2: far as the House House Ethics Report, now, once Gates
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Speaker 2: was nominated for the Attorney General position, that is when
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Speaker 2: he resigned from his position in the House, which effectively,
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Speaker 2: by rule, shuts down the release of the ethics report,
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Speaker 2: and the Speaker of the House had this to say
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Speaker 2: about it. I don't know anything about the contents of
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Speaker 2: the report because of the way that the rules work.
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Speaker 2: Of course, the Speaker of the House can't put a
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Speaker 2: thumb on the scale or be involved in an ethics
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Speaker 2: committee report. What I do know is that the comments
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Speaker 2: about there being a precedent for releasing reports is not
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Speaker 2: exactly accurate. He said, there's a very important reason for
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Speaker 2: the tradition and the rule of law that we have
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Speaker 2: almost always followed, and that is that we don't issue
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Speaker 2: investigations and ethics reports on people who were not members
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Speaker 2: of Congress. I'm afraid that would open up Pandora's box.
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Speaker 2: Because of the jurisdiction of the Ethics Committee, it's limited
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Speaker 2: to those who are serving an the institution. That's its
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Speaker 2: very purpose, and I think this would be a breach
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Speaker 2: of protocol that could be dangerous for us going forward
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Speaker 2: in the future. So basically, the way this would work is,
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Speaker 2: you know, because he resigned, it should just be held
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Speaker 2: at that point, at least this particular investigation. There are
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Speaker 2: going to be questions about it. There was an accusation
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Speaker 2: that there was a woman who says that when she
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Speaker 2: was seventeen, she had a relationship with Gates. He's denied it.
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Speaker 2: There's been this has been something that's being going on
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Speaker 2: for three years. The woman is now, you know, twenty
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Speaker 2: years old, and Gates said this was what he told
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Speaker 2: Fox News Digital. These allegations are invented and would constitute
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Speaker 2: false testimony to Congress. This false smear following a three
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Speaker 2: year criminal investigation should be viewed with great skepticism. So
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Speaker 2: there's that and that's hanging out there, and it's one
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Speaker 2: of the things that makes people think he's probably not
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Speaker 2: going to get the green light that and he's upset
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Speaker 2: a lot of people in Congress, a lot of people
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Speaker 2: that don't care for him. The former president likes him
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Speaker 2: and sees him as someone who has been smeared and attacked,
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Speaker 2: And you know, is this an opportunity for him to
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Speaker 2: get some of those people back if he goes into
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Speaker 2: this role. The Pete Hegseth thing is another ordeal altogether.
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Speaker 2: It's a conflicting story of basically he said, she said
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Speaker 2: it was a woman who was supposed to be in
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Speaker 2: charge of escorting him back to his room, and then
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Speaker 2: the next day this was at a conference and was
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Speaker 2: supposed to be responsible for making sure he was awake
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Speaker 2: and ready to leave the next day, ninety minutes to
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Speaker 2: get to the airport, and all those sorts of things.
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Speaker 2: Hex Seth at the time was not married and according
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Speaker 2: and he had apparently been drinking. Conflicting reports about whether
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Speaker 2: the woman was drunk or not drunk, or you know,
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Speaker 2: some sort of activity happened between the two or did not.
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Speaker 2: He has a different version of the story than she does.
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Speaker 2: No charges were brought about by the police about her
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Speaker 2: accusations that he had possibly sexually assaulted her. According to
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Speaker 2: the police, they said, there's no she didn't have a
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Speaker 2: clear testimony to what happened. He basically had his version
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Speaker 2: of the story, she had her version of the story. Ultimately,
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Speaker 2: he was concerned because there wasn't going to be a
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Speaker 2: criminal investigation, that if this got out, could hurt his
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Speaker 2: chances of keeping his job at Fox. There was a
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Speaker 2: payment that was made to her, there was an agreement,
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Speaker 2: a settlement that was happened, and then they moved on.
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Speaker 2: And now apparently a friend of this woman who was
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Speaker 2: never identified as saying, oh, well, I've got some information
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Speaker 2: to share, which I think that's you know, these settlements
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Speaker 2: in these you know, non disclosure agreements and all these
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Speaker 2: sorts of things. You know what happens when you come
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Speaker 2: to those agreements and then someone breaks it, or someone
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Speaker 2: breaks it on your behalf. Remember this was like a
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Speaker 2: Linda Tripp thing with with then President Clinton. Right, it
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Speaker 2: was like, I'm gonna tell a story and people were like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I can't believe it. Anybody would listen to her. She's terrible,
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Speaker 2: And they made fun of her, and John Goodman dressed
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Speaker 2: up as her on Saturday Night Live, and these sorts
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Speaker 2: of things. So again, is it there's smoke, there's fire?
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Speaker 2: Is it? Hey, this is someone who's trying to drudge
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Speaker 2: up something from the past to try to make it.
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Speaker 2: But again, no one knew who Pete Hegseth was, and
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Speaker 2: suddenly now everybody knows exactly who he is. He's a monster.
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Speaker 2: There's no evidence to support it. There's no evidence to say,
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Speaker 2: you know, but we heard a story from someone who
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Speaker 2: heard a story that maybe this happened, So therefore we
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Speaker 2: know he must be a monster. But we'll see where
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Speaker 2: some of these picks go. There's some really good ones
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Speaker 2: in there. The Tulsa Gabbard pick, I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of people excited, but even people questioning that, Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 2: how are you gonna have her in that role? She's
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Speaker 2: a great pick. She's a great pick. And we're not
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Speaker 2: even touching what Elon Musk and Vivic Ramaswami are going
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Speaker 2: to be doing with this Doge Department. But we'll be
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Speaker 2: talking more about that. But I'm excited about the possible
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Speaker 2: trimming of fat. I'd like to see the earmarks. I'd
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Speaker 2: like to see all the pork in Congress school away.
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Speaker 2: How about this. You got something that you want to
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Speaker 2: get Congress to vote on Let's say, let's vote on
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Speaker 2: funding for this, got it all right? Next issue, let's
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Speaker 2: vote on sending a billion dollars to another country to
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Speaker 2: find out if monkeys like to use heroin. No, no,
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Speaker 2: we're not going to vote. Okay, well, okay, that's a no.
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Speaker 2: Because what they do is they say, let's vote on
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Speaker 2: funding for the military, and then there's twenty of these
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Speaker 2: things where you know you're funding trans shows or trans
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Speaker 2: events or whatever in another country. And why are we
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Speaker 2: funding that? Because you had people in Congress who didn't
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Speaker 2: want to vote no on the military funding and that
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Speaker 2: stuff was hidden in there, the little earmarks that are
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Speaker 2: tucked away. How about we vote on one thing at
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Speaker 2: a time. That would take too long, would it? I mean,
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Speaker 2: just in case you were holding out on the idea
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Speaker 2: of us being into the holiday season, it's official. We're there,
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Speaker 2: and we're a little over a week from Thanksgiving, and
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Speaker 2: of course the downhill slide to Christmas is very quick
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Speaker 2: after that and to make it official. Signs that the
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Speaker 2: holiday season has started well. According to a new survey,
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Speaker 2: when you hear Christmas music on the radio, that's an
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Speaker 2: indicator that the holidays are here. Seeing or hearing the
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Speaker 2: first Christmas ads on TV or radio or podcast when
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Speaker 2: it's dark before five pm, some say that's an indication
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Speaker 2: the holidays are here. The survey also found that man
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Speaker 2: many people have gotten a head start on Christmas festivities,
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Speaker 2: with sixty one percent saying they've already purchased gifts, fifty
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Speaker 2: five percent have planned the gifts that they're getting, and
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Speaker 2: forty six percent have bought holiday decorations. Forty three percent
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Speaker 2: have already watched a holiday movie. I've started to see
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Speaker 2: a lot of houses already decorated, which is great, good
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Speaker 2: head start on it. We kind of wait till Thanksgiving
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Speaker 2: to actually decorate because we have sort of fall decorations
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Speaker 2: that we have until then. That's sort of our tradition
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Speaker 2: with it. But you know, to each their own, some
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Speaker 2: people get ahead start. They like having the Christmas stuff
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Speaker 2: up as long as possible, which I can understand that too.
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Speaker 2: Last year's holiday season was a busy time for travelers,
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Speaker 2: and for this year, it's expected to be even busier.
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Speaker 2: According to a new holiday survey done by Deloitte, nearly
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Speaker 2: half of Americans planned to travel between Thanksgiving and mid January.
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Speaker 2: Nineteen percent said they planned to visit family or friends,
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Speaker 2: thirty percent or planning to stay at a hotel or resort.
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Speaker 2: One of the reasons given for the increased desire to
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Speaker 2: travel this holiday season is people's optimism about their personal
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Speaker 2: financial situations. Forty six percent of people say that their
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Speaker 2: finances improved over the past year. Also, more Americans say
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Speaker 2: that they are making traveling more of a priority in
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Speaker 2: their lives. I wonder if the potential for financial situations
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Speaker 2: to get a little better, I don't know, sometime after
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Speaker 2: January twentieth, the possibility of that, with you know, fuel
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Speaker 2: and things, a big drastic change coming for the energy
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Speaker 2: consumption in the US and our ability to you know,
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Speaker 2: sell it to other countries. We've already got some of
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Speaker 2: those deals in the work, So I think there's probably
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Speaker 2: some optimism and positive thinking with all of that. All
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Speaker 2: right back to Thanksgiving for just a minute. Thanksgiving sometimes
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Speaker 2: and Turkey can be a little dry, and they say, well,
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Speaker 2: you you know, gravy helps with that. Gravy is a
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Speaker 2: good thing. You know, it's great in you know, they
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Speaker 2: say at least one company, one restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina,
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Speaker 2: says why eat it when you can also drink gravy
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Speaker 2: as a cocktail. This particular restaurant, Edmunds Oast Brewing Company,
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Speaker 2: got an idea to work on gravy shots and they've
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Speaker 2: been doing so since twenty fifteen and it's starting to
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Speaker 2: catch on more and more now. So the ideas you
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Speaker 2: mix gravy and bourbon for a savory type of drink.
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Speaker 2: Others include wild turkey and KFC and the UK have
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Speaker 2: suggested adding a little whiskey to gravy to celebrate a
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Speaker 2: unique meaty type of cocktail. So if you'd like to
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Speaker 2: make your own for friends and family, just pour enough
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Speaker 2: bourbon until into your gravy until it's drinkable consistency, and
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Speaker 2: then serve it in a glass rimmed with brown sugar
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Speaker 2: and herbs. You know, I like gravy. I like it
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Speaker 2: a lot. I don't know that I'm doing gravy shots.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if one was put in front of me,
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Speaker 2: I would try it. And I have a friend Mark
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Speaker 2: who is a big enough whiskey and bourbon fan that
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Speaker 2: he would probably be game to give this a try.
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Speaker 2: So Mark, I know you listen if this is something
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Speaker 2: that needs to be on our radar, my friend, I'm
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Speaker 2: there with you. I just I don't know that this
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Speaker 2: is something I would just do on my own. I
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Speaker 2: kind of feel like this is one of those things
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Speaker 2: that you have to do with someone else, just so
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Speaker 2: you don't feel like, why am I just drinking shots
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Speaker 2: of gravy? You know, I don't know. It just sounds weird,
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Speaker 2: But I mean I would try it. I would try
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Speaker 2: it with you, Mark, That's what I'm saying. A deep
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Speaker 2: fried legal battle cooking between KFC and Churches Chicken Church's
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Speaker 2: Texas Kitchen. I guess it's the full name KFC suing
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Speaker 2: the rival for the phrase original recipe, which KFC claims
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Speaker 2: to hold the rights to. The lawsuit accuses churches of
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Speaker 2: trademark violation and argues that their use of the phrase
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Speaker 2: is likely to create confusion in the marketplace and the
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Speaker 2: original recipe. Mark Company said in a statement on behalf
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Speaker 2: of all fried chicken lovers out there, we take it
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Speaker 2: personally when another company tries to claim our iconic taste
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Speaker 2: and branding as their own. We remain committed to protecting
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Speaker 2: our brand's intellectual property and safeguarding the experience of our customers.
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Speaker 2: Churches has not responded publicly to the lawsuit. That's the
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Speaker 2: most lawsuit jargon you can get when you think about it,
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Speaker 2: because they're blaming the customers and the experience of the
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Speaker 2: customers on the lawsuit, not on Hey, we don't want
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Speaker 2: people to go to churches and buy their original recipe
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Speaker 2: or trademark, whatever it is. That'll do it. For this
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