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Everything Will Be Okay · 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 Show.
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Speaker 2: Thursday morning, twenty sixth day of September. I'm West Thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. I got to do the same thing
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Speaker 2: I did yesterday. And I feel like, I know I've
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Speaker 2: got a number of you that listen in other parts
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Speaker 2: of the country right now, those of us here in
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Speaker 2: the southeast. We base this show well, the show is
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Speaker 2: based out of the Chattahoochee Valley area in west central Georgia.
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Speaker 2: We have most of the radio audience for the show
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Speaker 2: over the years has largely come from that area East Alabama,
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Speaker 2: Western Georgia, so that's the home base for where the
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Speaker 2: show was done. And we have severe weather sort of
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Speaker 2: bearing down in progress depends on when you listen to this,
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Speaker 2: And I know, I feel like I should just say
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Speaker 2: it because I say it I know regularly. But this
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Speaker 2: is one of those cases where while we aren't a
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Speaker 2: weather centric show, we don't talk about weather a lot
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Speaker 2: other than general Hey it's fall, Hey it's spring, Hey
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Speaker 2: it's hot, Hey it's cold. A big chunk of the
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Speaker 2: country dealing with rain, that kind of stuff. But in
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Speaker 2: the case of something like a hurricane making its way
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Speaker 2: towards us. It's worth noting for and many of our
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Speaker 2: listeners are in this area. If you're outside of the area,
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Speaker 2: just know we're dealing with some stuff, and we know
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Speaker 2: sometimes you're dealing with some stuff. We don't mean to
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Speaker 2: be dismissive of your stuff, and I hope that you
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Speaker 2: understand why we're talking about our stuff right now. So
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Speaker 2: it is a mess for us, and we're going to
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Speaker 2: be dealing with that for the next couple of days.
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Speaker 2: And that's where we are currently is just bracing for
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Speaker 2: all of that and getting ready for all of it.
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Speaker 2: So that's what's going on, and we are preparing as
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Speaker 2: best we can. So if you're listening and you live
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Speaker 2: somewhere in the area that is going to be impacted
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Speaker 2: by Helene, just know this is your kind of your life.
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Speaker 2: If especially if you're listening early in the day, you
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Speaker 2: may be in your last chances to get ready. You
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Speaker 2: may already be hunkered down, you may have already lost power,
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Speaker 2: depending on when you're listening to this. And I'll just
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Speaker 2: tell you now, if you're in a place that's lost
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Speaker 2: power and you are listening to this show, I appreciate
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Speaker 2: that it means even more that you're using some of
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Speaker 2: your valuable power to listen to us on a phone
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Speaker 2: or on a tablet or whatever you're listening on. I
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Speaker 2: appreciate that. I hope most of you are not dealing
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Speaker 2: with that, and I hope that we're able to navigate
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Speaker 2: through all of this. As the day goes on and
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Speaker 2: I start thinking about tomorrow morning show, I don't know
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Speaker 2: how that's going to work. If I don't have power,
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Speaker 2: I may disappear from the air on on Friday. I
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Speaker 2: don't know how that's gonna work. But we'll do our
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Speaker 2: best to get a show like normal for tomorrow because
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Speaker 2: you got to have that strange and bizarre news. We
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Speaker 2: got to be able to do that, don't we. So
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Speaker 2: just again, final preparations if you get if you listen
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Speaker 2: to this early enough, when you have a chance to
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Speaker 2: pop into the store or get whatever you need just
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Speaker 2: in case. I know people have already been doing that.
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Speaker 2: They're already stocking up on necessities. You're already stocking up
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Speaker 2: on toilet paper necessity. We're stocking up on you know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what if people get milk and eggs
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Speaker 2: or whatever. I don't know why bread to me seems
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Speaker 2: the most logical thing. If you got bread, you got
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Speaker 2: peanut butter, you can eat for a couple of days.
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Speaker 2: You got if you got a way to heat up
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Speaker 2: soup and you got a can of soup, you can
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Speaker 2: do that. But you know people do that and sometimes
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Speaker 2: you know, if you don't have a microwave or you
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Speaker 2: got an electric stove, how are you gonna heat it up?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I know there's other ways
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Speaker 2: to do it. There's resourceful ways to pull it off.
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Speaker 2: We have a gas stove. I know that that's bad.
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Speaker 2: You're not you're not supposed to have that, but we
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Speaker 2: have one of those. We're ready to go just in
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Speaker 2: case we have to do that. And then we've cooked
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Speaker 2: ahead a little bit. And that was something that we
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Speaker 2: tried to do last night, cook something that would last
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Speaker 2: us a couple of nights. So planning to eat on
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Speaker 2: a nice big pot roast for a couple of days,
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Speaker 2: that's the plan for us. And then we got bread
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Speaker 2: and you know, sandwich, meat and peanut butter, so we're
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Speaker 2: good to go. Cereal Cereal is another big one. As
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Speaker 2: long as you keep the milk cold, you're good to go.
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Speaker 2: But we don't know. We don't know what the power
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Speaker 2: situation is going to be like. We don't know what
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Speaker 2: a lot of this is going to be like for folks.
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Speaker 2: We're just bracing for the worst. You've seen a lot
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Speaker 2: of the linesman and the power company trucks headed south.
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Speaker 2: They'll be headed right back this way. This is supposed
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Speaker 2: to be kind of a fast moving storm, apparently. I've
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Speaker 2: covered slow moving store slow moving hurricanes in my days
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Speaker 2: as a broadcaster over the last thirty years, and those
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Speaker 2: are interesting. I've covered some more, you know, faster moving ones.
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Speaker 2: This one's moving gonna be moving kind of quickly for us.
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Speaker 2: But so if you're not in the area, you know,
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Speaker 2: send prayers, well wishes, whatever you got for us. We'll
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Speaker 2: get through it, and we're bracing for the worst with
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Speaker 2: all these you know, states of emergency declared around and
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Speaker 2: folks just trying to be as prepared as possible. And
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Speaker 2: then we'll get into the weekend and things will hopefully
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Speaker 2: calm down. And that's going to be true for most people.
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Speaker 2: There will be some that will be dealing with, you know,
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Speaker 2: major catastrophe. They're going to be dealing with loss, They're
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Speaker 2: going to be dealing typically a storm like this, you
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Speaker 2: end up with lives lost, all of those things that
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Speaker 2: can some folks will be dealing with, as some folks
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Speaker 2: are going to be dealing without power for a few days.
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Speaker 2: So bless those linemen who are going to be working
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Speaker 2: for us probably have already been working hard in a
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Speaker 2: number of places as this storm has been making its
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Speaker 2: way in our direction. Here it's you know, it's been
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Speaker 2: headed based on wherever the cone has shifted. Sometimes they're
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Speaker 2: saying it's coming right at us. Sometimes it's you know,
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Speaker 2: veering a little off from the city of Columbus where
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Speaker 2: we are. But we'll see how it all plays out
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Speaker 2: in the next you know, a couple of days, depending
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Speaker 2: on when you're listening to this. So we'll shift away
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Speaker 2: from just talking about that, because again, you may be
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Speaker 2: listening to this in November, and this doesn't matter as
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Speaker 2: much as far as the storm goes. If you're listening
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Speaker 2: to this even next week in October, this you know,
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Speaker 2: hurricane discussion and talk isn't going to mean a whole lot.
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Speaker 2: But on the subject of November, and I just I
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Speaker 2: want to touch on this and it might be kind
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Speaker 2: of a shorter show today. I don't I don't know
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Speaker 2: how much I'm going to say on this particular topic,
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Speaker 2: but I feel like it's important to address it. I'll
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Speaker 2: probably talk about it again closer to November. But just
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Speaker 2: something that's been heavy on my heart, something that I
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Speaker 2: feel like I need to say, and it's something that
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people maybe need to hear.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to presume that I've got some great revelation,
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Speaker 2: because I think what I'm about to say to you
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Speaker 2: you probably already know, deep in your heart, deep in
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Speaker 2: your soul, You're probably already aware of it. I'm not
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Speaker 2: going to tell you something that you're going to go man,
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Speaker 2: that is revolutionary. That is some crazy stuff coming from
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Speaker 2: Old West. That's not what I'm gonna do. But sometimes
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Speaker 2: I think people need to hear it. I need to
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Speaker 2: hear it from time to time, and I need to
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Speaker 2: have someone remind it to me. So I'm just kind
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Speaker 2: of passing on that message that I think needs to
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Speaker 2: be occasionally we need to be reminded of it. I
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Speaker 2: talk about my faith some on the show. It's not
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Speaker 2: a constant discussion about faith, but I do talk about it.
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Speaker 2: I've addressed it. I've told you before that my faith
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Speaker 2: is a big part of my conservative views. I do
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Speaker 2: think that my faith. It's very important that our faith
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Speaker 2: influences our politics, and it's not our politics that influences
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Speaker 2: our faith. I think it's very important that we don't.
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Speaker 2: You know, the basis for what we do from a
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Speaker 2: social justice standpoint should come from our core belief system,
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Speaker 2: from what you know, if you know, whatever that belief
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Speaker 2: system is. But if we look at social justice issues
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Speaker 2: and we say, you know, this is something that I've
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Speaker 2: been told I'm supposed to care about politically, so I'm
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Speaker 2: going to now force it and wedge it into my
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Speaker 2: religious teachings that go against everything that my faith has
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Speaker 2: typically said in the past, Well then I think we
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Speaker 2: got a problem, and I think we got issues with that.
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Speaker 2: And I've told you that many times before. I've stressed that.
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Speaker 2: I think it's very I say it, and I'll know
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Speaker 2: I put on a T shirt. If your politics is
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Speaker 2: influencing your faith, you're doing it backwards. It should be
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Speaker 2: you know, the exact opposite your faith and who you
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Speaker 2: are as a person should be making the decisions for.
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Speaker 2: But while also understanding that not everybody shares your faith,
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Speaker 2: and in a country founded by people who understood that,
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Speaker 2: you know, they did not want there to be a
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Speaker 2: national religion forced on people. So there's going to be
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Speaker 2: areas where you're going to say, look, my faith tells
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Speaker 2: me this is right and wrong. Our government tells us that.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's these freedoms that come that we should have.
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Speaker 2: Our freedom of speech and expression sometimes will allow us
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Speaker 2: to say things that maybe offend me as a religious person.
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Speaker 2: There's things that people say that I would never say.
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Speaker 2: But I don't necessarily believe that our founders are our
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Speaker 2: laws intended to prevent them from being able to say
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Speaker 2: those things. Does that makes sense? So that's where I
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Speaker 2: come from with it. And there's going to be issues,
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Speaker 2: and I've talked about this before. I don't believe that,
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Speaker 2: you know, other than for some very specific reasons, but
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Speaker 2: just as a form of birth control. I don't think
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Speaker 2: that abortion is okay. I don't. I don't think that
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Speaker 2: that is now. I'm not someone who believes that you
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Speaker 2: should persecute someone who has had an abortion. I don't
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Speaker 2: believe that's okay either, But I don't believe that it
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Speaker 2: should be something that we use as a means of
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Speaker 2: birth control. When you know there's other things in place
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Speaker 2: that other decisions that can be made to not need
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Speaker 2: that to be a form of birth control. And I
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Speaker 2: say that because I also understand that there's a large
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Speaker 2: portion of the country, about half apparently not all women,
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Speaker 2: that believe that it should be allowed from a legal standpoint.
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Speaker 2: So it's one of those areas where, you know, from
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Speaker 2: a political standpoint, I say, well, you know, apparently there
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Speaker 2: is this call for it in many states now that
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Speaker 2: it's gone back to the States, for it to be
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Speaker 2: you know, legal under certain circumstances. And while I may
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Speaker 2: not morally agree with it, I can understand from a
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Speaker 2: legal standpoint living in a country where many people think
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Speaker 2: it's okay, there's a difference. And that's what I'm just
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Speaker 2: trying to stress. So I've talked about that, and there's
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Speaker 2: a big thing that I think I need to also stress.
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Speaker 2: And I've talked to people. This was four years ago,
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Speaker 2: and then yet again it's coming up right now, and
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Speaker 2: we're seeing a lot of people saying things like, you know,
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Speaker 2: if Trump doesn't win, we're in big trouble. The country's
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Speaker 2: going to hell, and Trump is the only one that
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Speaker 2: can save us. And I think this is where we
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Speaker 2: start getting into this dangerous rhetoric, this dangerous conversation, And
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Speaker 2: this is what I would like to get to as
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Speaker 2: far as a point for today's show. If you're like me,
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Speaker 2: then you believe that God is one hundred percent of
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Speaker 2: control and that everything is going according to his plan.
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Speaker 2: Everything's going to be okay. I understand. I would like
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Speaker 2: to get back to a point where I was five
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Speaker 2: years ago. As far as you earn money and you
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Speaker 2: get to keep most of your money, and that the
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Speaker 2: cost of things that has gone up. We have to
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Speaker 2: get things leveled out. We have to get to a
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Speaker 2: point where we're earning enough money and the cost of
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Speaker 2: goods is a place where we're able to feed our families,
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Speaker 2: We're able to put fuel in our vehicles. We're not
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Speaker 2: prioritizing redistribution of wealth over families being able to feed themselves. Say,
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Speaker 2: one of the big misconceptions that we have right now is, oh,
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Speaker 2: you know, Trump doesn't look out for the middle class.
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Speaker 2: Republicans don't look out for the middle class, when in reality,
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Speaker 2: taking money away from anyone for the purposes of the
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Speaker 2: Green New Deal or for environmental causes, not allowing us
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Speaker 2: to be energy independent, the way we were five years ago,
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Speaker 2: even four years ago, even during COVID taking that stuff
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Speaker 2: away and letting it roll into inflation, highest inflation level ever.
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Speaker 2: That's not looking out for the middle class. This conversation
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Speaker 2: about you know, we're talking about and I've seen a
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Speaker 2: number of people discussing this, this whole you know, capital
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Speaker 2: gains tax, and people say, oh my gosh, you know
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Speaker 2: it's they're gonna tax you when your investments earn money,
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Speaker 2: even if you don't sell them, and then if you
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Speaker 2: lose money on them, well you don't get any of
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Speaker 2: that money back. And then the next year, if you recover,
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Speaker 2: then you have to pay tax on it again. And
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Speaker 2: that's been a big conversation point, talking point on the right,
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Speaker 2: and people are saying, well, no, no, no, the Harris
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Speaker 2: campaign only wants to do that to people who have
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Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars or more. Well, what happens when
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Speaker 2: all the people who have one hundred million dollars or
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Speaker 2: more pull all their money out of the stock market
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Speaker 2: because they understand this is a bad system that's in
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Speaker 2: place that crushes the middle class, that crushes all levels
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Speaker 2: of even the lower upper class. It crushes everyone who's
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Speaker 2: trying to save for eventually some sort of retirement or
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Speaker 2: some sort of an exit plan for their career. That's
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Speaker 2: what happens. But this idea that they want to take
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Speaker 2: money away from people who earn money for the purposes
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Speaker 2: of spreading it around somewhere else they feel like they
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Speaker 2: will do a better job spreading that money around, And
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Speaker 2: you know, a llah mistakes made in places like California.
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Speaker 2: But my point here is that, sure, I understand why
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Speaker 2: you feel it's important for your candidate to win, whichever
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Speaker 2: candidate is, but I'd just like to remind you that
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Speaker 2: a campaign strategy for both sides is to tell you
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Speaker 2: exactly that your candidate has to win. You should be angry,
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Speaker 2: you should be afraid, you should be worried, you should
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Speaker 2: be all of these things, because that motivates people to
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Speaker 2: show up on election day. That motivates people to go
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Speaker 2: grab their ballot and vote early. That motivates people to
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Speaker 2: tell other people you should do the same thing. We're
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Speaker 2: not required to be angry when we vote. We're not
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Speaker 2: required to be afraid. We're not required to do a
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Speaker 2: number of things that they seem to tell us that
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Speaker 2: we're supposed to do. All that we're really required to
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Speaker 2: do is your civic duty. Should you choose to go
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Speaker 2: do that now, I'm encouraging you, especially if you're going
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Speaker 2: to vote for the candidate that's going to allow you
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Speaker 2: to have more money in your bank account and not
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Speaker 2: the one who thinks the most important thing in the
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Speaker 2: world is green initiatives and our gas from Venezuela or whatever.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you. You don't have to be afraid, and
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Speaker 2: you don't have to believe that Donald Trump is the
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Speaker 2: savior of the world and of the US. You don't
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Speaker 2: have to say that. You don't have to believe that.
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Speaker 2: You can support your candidate. You can put your yard signs,
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Speaker 2: you can wear your T shirts, you can put stickers
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Speaker 2: on your car, whatever it is that you want to
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Speaker 2: do to support him, and you can make sure to
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Speaker 2: vote for him, and you can encourage people that you
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Speaker 2: know to go vote for him. But you don't have
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Speaker 2: to buy into this idea that everything's going to be.
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Speaker 2: You know, we're all going to hell if he loses,
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Speaker 2: because that's all part of this programmed mind thing that
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Speaker 2: we're dealing with on both sides. You know, you have
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Speaker 2: to Trump is evil. Trump is the devil. If you
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Speaker 2: don't vote for him, vote against him, and vote for
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Speaker 2: the vapid, empty person who's on the other side, who
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Speaker 2: doesn't answer questions. By the way, she's going to do
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Speaker 2: her interview with MSNBC. That's great announcing that she'll do
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Speaker 2: an interview with somebody who's going to ask her easy questions. Again,
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Speaker 2: she's not taking any sort of difficult questions because she can't.
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Speaker 2: She's not capable of answering tough questions. But that's another
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Speaker 2: point altogether. My point is it's all going to be okay.
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Speaker 2: We're all going to be all right, and I think
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Speaker 2: we occasionally need to remind ourselves of that that this
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Speaker 2: is not we're not voting for, you know, a savior.
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Speaker 2: We're voting for a president who will do the things
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Speaker 2: that he did five years ago and get us back
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Speaker 2: to a place where we can all afford to, you know,
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Speaker 2: go to the store, buy the things that we need
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Speaker 2: to buy, make purchases, maybe travel, maybe do some of
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Speaker 2: these things that we've long dreamed about doing for the
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Speaker 2: last five years, you know, recovering from COVID. The thing
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Speaker 2: that the current administration, which includes Kamala Harris, hasn't really
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Speaker 2: allowed us to do. They haven't allowed us still to
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Speaker 2: recover from COVID, but I just want to remind you
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Speaker 2: maybe cosmetic changes you'd like to make to your garage door.
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Speaker 2: Maybe your curb appeal isn't quite what you want it
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Speaker 2: to be and you need some repair work done to
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Speaker 2: the outside door. Maybe you need a brand new garage
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Speaker 2: door completely. Maybe it's making a noise when your garage
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Speaker 2: door opens and closes. Maybe it's some sort of installation
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Speaker 2: issue that you've got with colder or warmer weather, sometimes
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Speaker 2: that stuff gets in and it's inconvenient. Maybe you're looking
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Speaker 2: at a situation where you'd like to add a screen
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Speaker 2: door to your garage door system that you can put
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Speaker 2: down and you can use use your garage space as
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Speaker 2: a sort of outdoor but indoor. You know, if you
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Speaker 2: maybe you just want a little man caved you'd like
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Speaker 2: to be able to open the door up and not
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Speaker 2: invite all the insects in. They can do that for
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Speaker 2: There's nothing worse than that thought of having your car
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Speaker 2: and you need somebody to come help, and they do
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Speaker 2: right after the break. So do you think it was
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Speaker 2: love at first sight when you first saw your dog?
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Speaker 2: If you say yes, you're definitely not alone. In fact,
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Speaker 2: a survey found that more dog owners had an instant
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Speaker 2: connection with their pet than with their partner. Eighty percent
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Speaker 2: of dog owners had an immediate connection with their dog,
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Speaker 2: compared to sixty nine percent who said the same thing
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Speaker 2: about their significant other. Respondents were also more likely to
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Speaker 2: believe in love at first sight with animals than with
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Speaker 2: people eighty seven percent compared to sixty two percent. And
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Speaker 2: as far as love goes, fifty three percent of those
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Speaker 2: surveys said that they feed their dogs better than they
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Speaker 2: feed themselves. I mean feeding them better, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I mean you're not giving them, you know, junk. You're
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Speaker 2: not going to drink your dog alcohol. Maybe you drink
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Speaker 2: a beer, maybe you drink some kind of you know,
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Speaker 2: a whiskey or a bourbon. You're not giving that to
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Speaker 2: your dog. So in that sense, you're probably almost certainly
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Speaker 2: doing that, and you're giving them that balanced meal every time.
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Speaker 2: If you're feeding them the dog food, and if you
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Speaker 2: only give them healthy snacks, maybe it's true. I don't
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Speaker 2: think that's a really difficult one to get to. In
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Speaker 2: the case of my dog, I saw a picture of
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Speaker 2: him and was like, I have to have this dog.
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Speaker 2: That's true. That happened to me. My previous dog we
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Speaker 2: did not have. We didn't see him ahead of time.
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Speaker 2: We went and we and we definitely connected immediately. But
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Speaker 2: in the case of my current dog, now we saw
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Speaker 2: a photo of him and I was like, this dog
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Speaker 2: needs to be in our house as soon as possible.
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Speaker 2: Also on the subject of pets, a survey from Talker
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Speaker 2: Research revealing that sixty one percent of millennials would end
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Speaker 2: a relationship if their partner did not get along with
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Speaker 2: their pet. Loyalty doesn't stop their Sixty three percent of
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Speaker 2: millennials said they'd prioritize their pets' needs over their own
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Speaker 2: in an emergency, seventy percent of Gen X and seventy
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Speaker 2: one percent of boomers agreeing that they would do the same.
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Speaker 2: I think that's just part of like, you know, sacrificial
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Speaker 2: love is love right, putting someone ahead of you, someone
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Speaker 2: that you think of as part of the family, and
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Speaker 2: if it's a pet, you probably think of him as
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Speaker 2: part of the family, all right. Way, size going up
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Speaker 2: around America. A new report from the CDC revealing that
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Speaker 2: over forty percent of adults in the US are now abese.
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Speaker 2: Twenty percent of children are classified as obese, with severe
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Speaker 2: obesity rates also on the rise. Data showing that obesity
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Speaker 2: rates are similar for men and women, but vary with
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Speaker 2: age and education level. Middle aged adults forty to fifty
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Speaker 2: nine years old have the highest obesity rates forty six percent,
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Speaker 2: compared to thirty five point five percent of those aged
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Speaker 2: twenty to thirty nine and thirty eight point nine percent
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Speaker 2: of those over the age of sixty. Can we round
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Speaker 2: off these percentages? It starts to get a little tricky
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Speaker 2: when you're doing that. The report also revealed that people
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Speaker 2: with higher education levels tend to have lower obesity rates.
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Speaker 2: While forty four point six just just say, forty five
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Speaker 2: percent of adults is not like you're going to go
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Speaker 2: home and write it down a score sheet. This isn't
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Speaker 2: a baseball game. You're not scoring it at home on
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Speaker 2: the radio. Forty five percent of adults rounding up with
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Speaker 2: only a high school degree are obese. The number drops
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Speaker 2: to thirty one sorry, thirty two percent for those with
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Speaker 2: a college degree. Severe obesity defined as BMI over forty
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Speaker 2: or above, has increased from in this I'll do specific
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Speaker 2: seven point seven percent in twenty thirteen to nine point
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Speaker 2: seven percent in twenty twenty three, so over a ten
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Speaker 2: year span. If you want to keep your brain sharp
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Speaker 2: and reduce the risk of dementia, it's time to get
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Speaker 2: a hobby. A recent study from Texas A and M
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Speaker 2: University finding that engaging in everyday hobbies like reading, playing
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Speaker 2: word games, working on projects can help older adults with
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Speaker 2: mild cognitive impairment maintain their cognitive functions. These activities act
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Speaker 2: like a mental workout, keeping the brain sharp and potentially
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Speaker 2: reducing the risk of dementia. The study followed nearly six
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Speaker 2: thousand participants over eight years and found that those who
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Speaker 2: frequently engaged in those hobbies add better memory, attention and
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Speaker 2: processing speed compared to those who do not. Have you
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Speaker 2: ever thought about your Halloween costume yet this year? Is
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Speaker 2: that's something that's been on the brain. We're getting down
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Speaker 2: to the final month, right, got a little over a
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Speaker 2: month to go before we get to Halloween. Well, the
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Speaker 2: Pop Tart's Bowl in Orlando last December got media coverage
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Speaker 2: for its mascot, Strawberry. It was a huge pop Tart
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Speaker 2: with legs that was lowered into a giant toaster and
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Speaker 2: presented for players to eat after the game. The actual
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Speaker 2: mascot switched out for a real pop Tart. They didn't
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Speaker 2: actually cook up a guy in a suit or gal
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Speaker 2: in the suit. Don't mean to be sexist there. It
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Speaker 2: could be anybody in there. Now. You can dress up
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Speaker 2: like Strawberry this Halloween, with pop Tarts teaming up with
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Speaker 2: Spirit Halloween Stores for an official costume of Strawberry, the mascot.
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Speaker 2: Probably best to stay away from toast rovens if you've
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Speaker 2: got the costume. Spirit Halloween also teamed up with Anti
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Speaker 2: Ann's and Cinnabon to create costumes that transform you into
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Speaker 2: your favorite snacks.
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Speaker 1: At the mall.
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Speaker 2: You can dress up as a cup of Anti Ann's
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Speaker 2: pretzel nuggets or a Cinnabon box, both of those retailing
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Speaker 2: at about fifty bucks apiece. That'll do it for this
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