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More Thoughtful Insight from Erika Kirk · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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Speaker 1: Carrol Morning.
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Speaker 2: Show Thursday morning, fourth day of December. I'm Wes. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me three weeks to Christmas. I know, bearer
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Speaker 2: of that news and the used to freak out my
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Speaker 2: old radio partner Scott Miller, just in mentioning the countdown
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Speaker 2: when when our kids were younger, I guess that would
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Speaker 2: apply to every statement, right, I mean last night they
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Speaker 2: were younger, right, that's the Mitch Hedberg joke. This is
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Speaker 2: a picture of me when I was younger, every picture
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Speaker 2: of you when you were younger, when they were much younger.
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Speaker 2: We had an up until really last year, we had
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Speaker 2: a a little snowman. I guess it's technically supposed to
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Speaker 2: be a yard ornament. You put it out in the
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Speaker 2: yard and it kind of pinned in the ground. It
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Speaker 2: came with little like tent steaks, and it had a
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Speaker 2: countdown clock on it until you know, Christmas morning, and
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Speaker 2: it was, you know, all lit up in things. And
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Speaker 2: we never put it outside. I guess you'd probably want
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Speaker 2: it covered just because of the type of material it
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Speaker 2: was made from, because it had a cloth type covering
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Speaker 2: to it, and it would count down you know, till
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Speaker 2: Christmas morning, and it was days, hours, minutes. And our
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Speaker 2: boys really loved that when they were kids, and we
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Speaker 2: got to a point where and it was always prominently
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Speaker 2: sort of near the dining room where they could see
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Speaker 2: it while we were having meals. So as time went
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Speaker 2: by and that became less of a fixation for them,
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Speaker 2: it then gravitated to especially I guess post twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: and that's when we had a tree fall on our
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Speaker 2: deck and our and parts of our house. And when
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Speaker 2: we did the rebuilding of the deck, we made some
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Speaker 2: upgrades enhancements to it, including a roof, and we screened
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Speaker 2: it in and what they framed it out for us,
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Speaker 2: and then I screened it in. But it's you know,
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Speaker 2: an upgrade and it's more not living space, but it's
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Speaker 2: more space for us. I mean not living space in
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Speaker 2: a technical sense as far as a house, but it's
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Speaker 2: more space for us to go to when it's not
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Speaker 2: you know, thirty whatever degrees it is this morning. So
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Speaker 2: in the fall and in the spring, we spend a
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Speaker 2: lot of time out there, We eat meals out there,
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Speaker 2: and typically when we get into these burmonths, once we
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Speaker 2: hit November and then into December, and you know, October
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Speaker 2: we have cooler weather, but we don't really have really
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Speaker 2: cold weather. This has been a little bit of an
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Speaker 2: earlier having the cold weather that we had in November,
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Speaker 2: a cold Halloween. Really, when you throw that in the mix,
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Speaker 2: and then you know, now obviously really cold, it feels
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Speaker 2: like winter. It's sort of the calendar winner, not the
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Speaker 2: astronomical winner. But we you know, once we hit December,
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Speaker 2: it's kind of there. But we would put this little
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Speaker 2: snowman with the countdown out there once that was all built,
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Speaker 2: and because that way it could stay protected in there,
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Speaker 2: and up until last year when it was I think
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Speaker 2: a bit colder, also a little earlier, and we didn't
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Speaker 2: spend as much time out there. So this year we
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Speaker 2: had that conversation. And I know I talked earlier this
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Speaker 2: week about sort of downsizing a little bit some of
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Speaker 2: the decorations, and some of the moms have been saying
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Speaker 2: that they're doing that, and you know, we said, it's
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Speaker 2: one of those casualties. That's one of those things that
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Speaker 2: maybe we don't need necessarily to put out. But I
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Speaker 2: would always when I would set it up, I would
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Speaker 2: take a picture of it each year, and I would
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Speaker 2: text it to my friend Scott millermul radio partner, and
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Speaker 2: he would just say stop it. Because he was always
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Speaker 2: one of those people who would shop very late in
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Speaker 2: the game just because he was busy and he had
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Speaker 2: things going on, didn't have time. So I used to
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Speaker 2: freak him out a lot with that. So in no
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Speaker 2: picture this year. I saw him a couple of nights ago,
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Speaker 2: and I wish that I had mentioned the snowman to him,
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Speaker 2: but he didn't need it. He was broadcasting a CSU
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Speaker 2: to talk about today is this. There's been and I
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Speaker 2: talked a little bit about some of this yesterday, but
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Speaker 2: I didn't go into some of the specifics with it.
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Speaker 2: But I think it's a shame that there's been so much.
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Speaker 2: I get it. A loss for words with some of
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Speaker 2: the conspiracy stuff. It's hard for me when I hear that,
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Speaker 2: a when I hear a person that maybe at one
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Speaker 2: time I would have listened to or I would have
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Speaker 2: heard their content and they really dive off the deep
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Speaker 2: end into some conspiracy stuff. Anybody that has been really
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Speaker 2: pushing this narrative about and look, you do your show,
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Speaker 2: you grab your attention, your ears, your eyes. You have
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Speaker 2: a bigger audience than I do. So I get that.
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Speaker 2: I told you yesterday. That's not me. I'm not trying
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Speaker 2: to be controversial. I'm not going to step in in
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Speaker 2: any way and bring any dignity to the conversation about
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Speaker 2: the t earning point USA people killing Charlie Kirk. I
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Speaker 2: just I don't really know where the basis is for that.
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Speaker 2: And honestly, you know, you want to put your case together.
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Speaker 2: You want to come with some sort of sound, solid
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Speaker 2: conclusion that you can share with the world by all
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Speaker 2: means let's hear it. But don't tell me somebody scratched
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Speaker 2: their nose and stood off to the side and whatever.
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Speaker 2: It's just But again, that's how they make their money,
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Speaker 2: that's how they do their show. And whenever I see
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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, being interviewed, I always find it
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Speaker 2: really interesting. You know, there was some flak that she
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Speaker 2: took at the beginning. People didn't like the way she
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Speaker 2: dabbed her tears. Why is she always crying? Well, her
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Speaker 2: husband just got murdered right in front of her, that
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Speaker 2: would be a reason to cry. No, I don't for
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Speaker 2: a minute believe that it's something that she wanted to happen.
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Speaker 2: What a horrible accusation to make.
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Speaker 1: It is weird.
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Speaker 2: It is weird the things that we can definitively assume.
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Speaker 2: Think back to when Kirk Cobain died, when he tried
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Speaker 2: to commit suicide and then or unlive himself whatever you're
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Speaker 2: supposed to say so that it's not considered offensive, and then, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, it was unsuccessful, and then then was successful
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Speaker 2: and everybody said, well, Courtney Love did it. There's nothing
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Speaker 2: to make us think he would want to do that. Well,
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Speaker 2: how about the other the attempt right, how about that again?
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Speaker 2: I you know, conspiracies, man, they're they're they're tough. Uh.
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Speaker 2: But Erica Kirk just was speaking at the New York
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Speaker 2: Times Deal Book Summit, and she was asked at the summit, uh,
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Speaker 2: in her interview. The person who did the interview Andrew
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Speaker 2: Ross Sorkin and a journalist, and he basically was asking
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Speaker 2: a question about gun control and about the Second Amendment.
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Speaker 2: And he basically said, you know, your husband was this
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Speaker 2: is a quote. He was a real believer, as you know,
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Speaker 2: in the Second Amendment. I'm curious how you think today
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Speaker 2: about gun violence in America given what happened to him.
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Speaker 2: Erica's response was, it's a thoughtful question, and I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: wish it upon anyone what I have been through. And
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Speaker 2: I support the Second Amendment as well. But there's a bigger,
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Speaker 2: much deeper conversation to all of that. And then she
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Speaker 2: went into talking about mental health. She said, and what
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Speaker 2: Charlie knew, and he was trying to explain to students
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Speaker 2: on campus, was that you have to understand that brain
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Speaker 2: health is so important. How you eat, how you take
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Speaker 2: care of yourself, how you nourish yourself, how you rest
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Speaker 2: into him. It was a much more deeper and intricate,
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Speaker 2: and she said, what I realized through all of this
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Speaker 2: is that you can have you can have individuals that
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Speaker 2: will always resort to violence. And what I'm afraid of
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Speaker 2: is that we're living in a day and age where
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Speaker 2: they think violent is the solution to them not wanting
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Speaker 2: to hear a different point of view. That's not a
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Speaker 2: gun problem. That's a human, deeply human problem. That is
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Speaker 2: a soul problem, that is a mental that is a
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Speaker 2: very deeper issue, she said. She also said social media,
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Speaker 2: like many other things, it can be used for such good,
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Speaker 2: and it can be used for such evil. And Charlie
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Speaker 2: and I both intentionally, especially after he was murdered, and
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Speaker 2: I took it off social media. She's talking about off
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Speaker 2: of my phone. I don't even have any news apps
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Speaker 2: on my phone. I have nothing on my phone. I
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Speaker 2: let other people post for me and siphon through those comments.
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Speaker 2: That is not I do not have the brain space
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Speaker 2: for that. I'm pulling this direct quote for that, and
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Speaker 2: she says, and it would definitely not be healthy for
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Speaker 2: me either. I get called so many names. I jely
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Speaker 2: don't care. I really don't I told you this before.
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Speaker 2: When you cast the bloody dead body of the person
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Speaker 2: that you love, it pales in comparison to being called
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Speaker 2: X Y or Z. All very well said. All very
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Speaker 2: well said, and again coming from somebody who has experienced
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Speaker 2: one of the most horrific things that you can experience,
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Speaker 2: and to do that with your children, and to watch
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Speaker 2: this person that you love just be murdered in cold
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Speaker 2: blood right in front of everyone, and for it to
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Speaker 2: be broadcast everywhere and to hear people celebrating and cheering
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Speaker 2: and all of the despicable things that came with that.
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Speaker 2: And you know, a lot of great points in all
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Speaker 2: of this, and I think maybe the biggest case in
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Speaker 2: this and it's always interesting that folks on the left
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Speaker 2: in many cases look for opportunities to just jump to
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Speaker 2: that it's a gun problem, and that's it's too many guns,
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Speaker 2: it's too much easy access to guns. They go for
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Speaker 2: specific guns. It feels like it's we're going to go
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Speaker 2: after this particular gun because maybe we can make a
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Speaker 2: case on this one. If we stay on this exact
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Speaker 2: gun enough, people will eventually cave and they'll give us
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Speaker 2: that gun, and then we move on to the next one.
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Speaker 2: And then the next one. And in a lot of cases,
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Speaker 2: you know, you hear things, and in this case, it
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Speaker 2: wasn't even that type of gun, the one they like
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Speaker 2: to pick on, you know, the AR one that doesn't
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Speaker 2: stand for assault rifle. It was just an old school,
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Speaker 2: an old school bolt action rifle, right, And nobody's been
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Speaker 2: making a case to get rid of those. So to
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Speaker 2: throw this back at Charlie Kirk and his you know,
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Speaker 2: it goes back to a quote that he had where
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Speaker 2: he basically said, you know, when people say, well, what
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Speaker 2: about people that are shot and killed? And he would say,
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Speaker 2: what about people dying car accidents? You're going to say
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Speaker 2: that in order to have the ability to drive a car,
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Speaker 2: and I'm paraphrasing, of course, but in order to have
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Speaker 2: the ability to drive a car, there's a certain amount
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Speaker 2: of accidents that we have every year that we just
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Speaker 2: kind of accept as these are going to happen, and
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Speaker 2: they're going to be part of this whole idea of
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Speaker 2: us driving cars. And he said the same was true
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Speaker 2: with guns. As despicable as it is for somebody to
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Speaker 2: be shot and killed, there's just to have a second amendment,
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Speaker 2: as our founding fathers intended, there's going to be a
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Speaker 2: certain amount of people that are going to be shot
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Speaker 2: each year. And he wasn't advocating for anybody to die
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Speaker 2: in either scenario. He was just making the point that,
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Speaker 2: you know, people die scuba diving, people die jumping out
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Speaker 2: of airplanes. Doesn't mean that we just stop doing it
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Speaker 2: all together. And you know, she's making a great point
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Speaker 2: in this. This is a human problem, deeply a human problem.
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Speaker 2: It's a sole problem, especially when you see people celebrating
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Speaker 2: and you see people that in some cases lost their
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Speaker 2: jobs because they were celebrating the murder of a human
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Speaker 2: being because he had a different point of view, and
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Speaker 2: then people defending the people who were celebrating it because
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Speaker 2: he had a different point of view. She's right, that
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Speaker 2: is a deeply human problem. That is a sole problem,
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Speaker 2: and you know, it's a deeper issue I think than
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Speaker 2: we can even comprehend. I still haven't been able to
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Speaker 2: wrap my brain around people celebrating, celebrating his murder. You know,
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Speaker 2: this much time has past, it's still despicable, and she's
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Speaker 2: living with it, and she's dealing with it, and she's
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Speaker 2: showing that she can stay above all of it now,
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Speaker 2: right after the break, Are you familiar with the boomer
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Speaker 2: stuff avalanche? Seems that older people are trying to downsize
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Speaker 2: and they're doing so by giving away stuff to their kids.
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Speaker 2: Some of it nice, some of it usable, some of
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Speaker 2: it's sentimental. Basically, it's things that maybe you're making your
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Speaker 2: more senior parents feel a little bit overwhelmed. They feel
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Speaker 2: like they have two much stuff and at the end
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Speaker 2: of the day they want to get rid of it
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Speaker 2: and deal with it while they still can't. Yes, that
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Speaker 2: is absolutely happening on both sides of the pond for us.
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Speaker 2: Some parents a little more anxious to get rid of
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Speaker 2: things than others, and you know, trying to and I
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Speaker 2: say get rid of them. There is a certain amount
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Speaker 2: in some cases of hey, I just want this out
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Speaker 2: of my house, and I feel like maybe this would
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Speaker 2: be of some benefit to you. In some cases it's
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Speaker 2: just really I just, you know, I just want to
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Speaker 2: get rid of it. Sometimes that's what it is. I
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Speaker 2: do think that I have I can speak for my parents.
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Speaker 2: They've collected things over the years that they think, hey,
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Speaker 2: this would be something that maybe would be of value.
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Speaker 2: One day, or it could be something that you would
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Speaker 2: really and appreciate, and in some cases neither of those
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Speaker 2: panned out. And it's just things. And I feel already like, well,
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Speaker 2: I can't take the things in my house and pass
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Speaker 2: them on to my kids yet. So we're we're at
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Speaker 2: our maximum capacity for us, in particular here in our home. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: it's a real thing. And if it hasn't started happening
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Speaker 2: for you yet, get ready, it's coming at some point.
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Speaker 2: Most likely there's worse problems to have. I can just
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Speaker 2: tell you that I know that that is the case.
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Speaker 2: So I'm appreciating. I have many friends who would say, hey,
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Speaker 2: I wish my parents were still around to give me things,
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Speaker 2: and I get that I do. At the end of
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Speaker 2: the day, though, it's things, and you're just trying to
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Speaker 2: figure out, well, what are we going to do with them? Exactly?
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Speaker 1: So.
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Speaker 2: A new survey says that fifty six percent of people
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Speaker 2: in the US believe that aliens do exist, the ones
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Speaker 2: from space. Just to be clear, forty seven believe that
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Speaker 2: aliens have definitely or probably already visited Earth. The survey
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Speaker 2: also found thirty percent of Americans believe unidentified flying objects
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Speaker 2: are probably alien ships or life forms. They need to
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Speaker 2: update the survey. They call them UAPs. Now plenty are
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Speaker 2: holding out hope that will make contact with aliens. Sixteen
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Speaker 2: percent say well, definitely or probably make contact with an
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Speaker 2: alien life within the next ten years. Twenty nine percent
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Speaker 2: think that it could happen in the next fifty years,
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Speaker 2: forty two percent thinking will do so, but in the
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Speaker 2: next one hundred years. A few things to process on
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Speaker 2: all of this. I mean, people have their at least
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Speaker 2: this is worded in the Terminology of belief, not We're
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Speaker 2: not going on a scientific thing based on any of this.
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Speaker 2: And I would just like to point out to you
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Speaker 2: that life beyond Earth almost certainly is there somewhere, but
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Speaker 2: it's probably nothing like what you would imagine in that
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Speaker 2: it may just be micro organisms or I'm just saying
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Speaker 2: that if it's out there, that's probably the form that
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Speaker 2: it's in, not necessarily little green men. But who am
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Speaker 2: I to say that, you know, the idea of aliens
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Speaker 2: coming to see us and then killing us all isn't
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Speaker 2: some something that we've seen play out over and over
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Speaker 2: again in movies. People should just take a breath and
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Speaker 2: be glad that they haven't revealed themselves. Yet, if they're
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Speaker 2: out there, that's that's all I'm saying. A customer at
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Speaker 2: a game stop store in Grapevine, Texas traded in a
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Speaker 2: Pokemon card for thirty four hundred and ninety four dollars
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Speaker 2: and seventy cents, setting a record for the most valuable
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Speaker 2: game stop trade in ever. The customer brought in a
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Speaker 2: fully authenticated PSA ten Holo gear. It was found to
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Speaker 2: have a fair market value of thirty three thousand, eight
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Speaker 2: hundred and eighty three dollars within the ballpark of the
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Speaker 2: cash the customer walked away with. GameStop officials took the
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Speaker 2: opportunity to push back against any trolls who publicly claim
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Speaker 2: the game stop trade in values are bad, adding any
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Speaker 2: prior and ongoing objections to our trade values are now
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Speaker 2: deemed without merit and factually invalid. That's pretty solid for
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Speaker 2: walking in to a game stop and walking out with
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Speaker 2: thirty grand just saying. Samsung has just unveiled its first
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Speaker 2: multifolding smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold, which folds twice
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Speaker 2: and unfolds into a ten inch tablet size screen. It's
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Speaker 2: certainly an engineering marvel. It also comes with a hefty
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Speaker 2: price tag between twenty five hundred and three grand. Seems
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Speaker 2: the thing is not made for casual buyers. It's a
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Speaker 2: luxury gadget for people who want to maybe possibly show
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Speaker 2: off by being on the leading edge of tech. Got
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Speaker 2: a couple of them Pokemon cards you can load up
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Speaker 2: on the those things for Christmas time. That'll do it
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