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Speaker 1: Good morning. You're listening to Casey and Jim. It is

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Speaker 1: ninety three WYBC. Coming up in just a bit, John

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Speaker 1: at Cruz from the WYBC newsroom is going to join us,

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Speaker 1: and at eleven we have Corey Grass, our FBI guy,

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Speaker 1: coming in. We're going to talk about the Nancy Guthrie case.

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Speaker 1: But this one billion dollar program might sound exciting, what

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Speaker 1: it is. It's basically just the government deciding who gets

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Speaker 1: ahead and who gets left behind, and the group running it,

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Speaker 1: oh our favorites, the IEDC. They haven't exactly been squeaky

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Speaker 1: clean in the past, so what you've got Yesterday Governor

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Speaker 1: Mike Brown revealed a new economic development initiative. It's aimed

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Speaker 1: at creating one hundred thousand high wage AG and life

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Speaker 1: sciences jobs over the next decade. The Indiana Economic Development

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Speaker 1: Corporation is going to commit one billion dollars of your

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Speaker 1: money in tax credits over ten years towards jobs in

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Speaker 1: AG and also life sciences. Now, the IEDC, of course,

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Speaker 1: we know lots of issues with shady spending, no bid contracts,

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Speaker 1: cozy relationships with certain companies. Basically, some people get favors

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Speaker 1: because they're connected, not because they're the best and you

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Speaker 1: you you get to pay for it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one of these days, I wish we could just

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Speaker 2: stop talking about the IEDC. But you got to keep

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Speaker 2: in mind, this is a you know, quasi governmental organization,

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Speaker 2: and you talked about kind of lack of transparency associated

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Speaker 2: with that it was set up, and it was set

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Speaker 2: up that way by design. They don't want to have

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Speaker 2: the same level of transparency that a typical state agency

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Speaker 2: would have to have, and so they were allowed to

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Speaker 2: kind of, I don't know what I would say, play

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Speaker 2: a little free and loose with the typical state agency

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Speaker 2: rules that were associated with the IEDC. And so they

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Speaker 2: raised a lot of money and certainly spent a lot

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Speaker 2: of money, and a lot of that was spent to

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Speaker 2: purchase up land as part of the Leap project. Some

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Speaker 2: would say that those purchases were way overfair market value

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Speaker 2: and then they turned around and essentially just gave that

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Speaker 2: land to multi billion dollar corporations like Facebook and Eli Lilly.

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Speaker 1: So, Mike Bron said, Indiana is a leader in life sciences,

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Speaker 1: where the premier destination for human therapeutics, animal health, agritech, biotechnology,

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Speaker 1: and environmental innovation. But what this is doing, it's picking

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Speaker 1: winners and losers instead of letting the free market figure

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Speaker 1: it out. And that means some businesses in towns are

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Speaker 1: going to get all sorts of money, billion dollars worth,

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Speaker 1: and others are going to get left out if the

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Speaker 1: IEDC can't handle money responsibly like we've seen in the past,

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Speaker 1: i e. Three Kings, there's a real risk that this

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Speaker 1: is going to reward insiders instead of creating real jobs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what's most frustrating about this is that, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, Mike bron talks a good game. He came

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Speaker 2: into office and he's like, we're going to audit the

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars of state's money auditing the IEDC, and

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Speaker 2: we found some problems, and of course the Indie Star

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Speaker 2: wrote that famous article and they did a great investigation

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Speaker 2: and you know called them the Three Kings and all

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Speaker 2: the shenanigans that were going on at the IEDC. And

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Speaker 2: you know, Mike Broun talked about how it's a problem,

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Speaker 2: but we're not seeing any structural changes. It's still that

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Speaker 2: quasi governmental agency which doesn't have the same transparency and

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Speaker 2: the same accountability and the same level of reporting back

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Speaker 2: to the state legislators as a normal agency would have.

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Speaker 2: We've seen virtually nothing else. So that's again, that's what's

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Speaker 2: probably the most frustrating. It seems just like Braun is

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Speaker 2: talking a good game. He's the tough guy out there. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: we're going to clean this place up. And then he

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Speaker 2: turns around and now we're just back to what business

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Speaker 2: as usual with the IEDC.

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Speaker 1: They just raised our taxes by so they we were

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Speaker 1: told they're a billion dollars short, right, and so yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so they raised taxes, yeah, and.

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Speaker 3: Then oh, just turn around.

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Speaker 1: So when government spends our money on targeted economic initiatives,

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Speaker 1: it's going to distort competition.

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Speaker 3: And I want to go back to something that Governor

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Speaker 1: This is going all the way back to February twenty

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Speaker 1: back then, and here he is talking about things being bloated.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think that if you can't see that clearly,

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Speaker 4: I'm an entrepreneur by trade before I got in the Senate.

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Speaker 4: You've got to see where things are going in the country.

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Speaker 4: All the way back to three decades ago, started getting

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Speaker 4: bloated here, and if you want to hang on to

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Speaker 4: what you may have been a part of, you got

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Speaker 4: to acknowledge that's not working.

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Speaker 2: That's what I just said. This was so frustrating about

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Speaker 2: Governor Braun is that he talks a good game, but

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Speaker 2: the actions don't play out. They don't back up the talk.

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Speaker 2: If I play a little game, Caaysey, let's play game. Okay.

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Speaker 2: So let's say we have a governor of a state.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm not going to tell you whether he's Democratic Republican,

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Speaker 2: but just kind of picture in your mind, just a

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Speaker 2: random generic governor of any.

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Speaker 1: Stating a middle aged or older man in an ill

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, nailed it. Okay. And then let's say that governor,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Let's say last year that governor raised

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Speaker 2: your taxes by a billion dollars. Okay, And then the

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Speaker 2: picture's coming clear. And then he wants to cram through

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Speaker 2: this this Mid States construction project, which is a road

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Speaker 2: that's going to cost a billion dollars that happens just

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Speaker 2: by coincidence, to run right by the business that he owns.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, all the people, all the polling

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Speaker 2: shows that the people in the communities by that road.

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Speaker 2: They don't want it. Okay, So let's say that. And

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Speaker 2: then and then let's say that that same governor wants

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Speaker 2: to create a toll road too, and raise your taxes

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Speaker 2: by four billion dollars a year because of all of

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Speaker 2: those tolls. If I told you those are the actions,

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Speaker 2: those are the policies of that governor, you look at

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Speaker 2: me and you'd say, Wow, that's got to be a

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Speaker 2: Democrat governor. You're talking about, what is that Gavin Newsom?

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Speaker 2: Is he doing that? That's got to be Gavin Newsom. No,

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Speaker 2: that would be Mike Braun. That would be Mike and Braun.

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Speaker 2: He sits there and talks about, Oh, there's so much

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Speaker 2: bloat and we're going to go in there and clean

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Speaker 2: it up. Billion dollars in new taxes last year, billion

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Speaker 2: dollars for a road right by his business that the

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Speaker 2: four billion annually of new taxes. They'll call them tolls,

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Speaker 2: but it's a tax. And that is supposedly a Republican governor.

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Speaker 1: Why do we just keep repeating the same crony capitalism issues.

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Speaker 3: Why over and over and over again.

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Speaker 2: And again that's why we're always so frustrated about this,

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Speaker 2: and that's why the term uniparty exists. And I get it.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of social issues where where there's a

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Speaker 2: little bit more clear definition between the Republicans and the Democrats.

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Speaker 2: But when it comes to spending your money, when it

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Speaker 2: comes to taking your dollars and calling them tax dollars

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Speaker 2: smarter than you, they know what to do with it,

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Speaker 2: and spending them constantly and on everything. The Republicans did

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Speaker 2: this at the national level too. They called it the

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Speaker 2: Big Beautiful Bill last year, spent all of the goodwill

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Speaker 2: that was the signature bill last year. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: that bill's going to add five trillion dollars to the

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Speaker 2: national debt. It is so frustrating to hear Mike Brawn

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Speaker 2: speak about conservativenomic, speak about things that we as conservatives

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Speaker 1: And all of this while you've got the pain of

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Speaker 1: soaring gas prices. What did we hear on the way

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Speaker 1: in it's up twenty cents in three days here in Indiana.

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Speaker 2: That'll give me another opportunity to talk about Mike Brown again.

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Speaker 2: You remember when he was running for election right here

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Speaker 2: in this studio and you asked him, Hey, why does

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Speaker 2: Indiana have the fifth highest gas tax in the nation.

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Speaker 2: And his response was, that's a use tax. Next question. No,

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about it. It's a used tax. Next question. Oh,

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Speaker 2: our roads are terrible, Our roads are awful, and we're

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Speaker 2: the fifth highest gas tax in the nation. Nope, that's

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Speaker 2: a use tax. Next question.

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Speaker 1: It's being compounded by electricity rate increases across the state.

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Speaker 1: Indiana sees the third highest spike in the country. Several

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Speaker 1: states saw at least ten percent increases in their electric rates,

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Speaker 1: Indiana sixteen point three percent. It's really it is an

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Speaker 1: affordability issue. I'm sorry, Donald Trump, you don't like that word.

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Speaker 1: You say it's a Democrat word. No, it's a human

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Speaker 1: American word.

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Speaker 3: At this point, yeah, everything.

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Speaker 2: That we've just talked about. The number one problem. The

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Speaker 2: polling on this has been pretty clear. The number one

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Speaker 2: issue that Americans believe is our biggest problem today is affordability.

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Speaker 2: The last poll that came out, I think it was

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Speaker 2: fifty seven percent of the country set affordability was the

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Speaker 2: number one problem. The number two problem was at fourteen percent,

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Speaker 2: So we've got a clear winner. Affordability is the issue.

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Speaker 2: Yet we just talked about a billion dollars in new

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Speaker 2: taxes here in the state of Indiana. We're talking about

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Speaker 2: a billion dollar road nobody wants. We're talking about four

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Speaker 2: billion dollars in new tolls potentially coming to I seventy

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Speaker 2: sixteen percent increase and our energy rates here. Oh and

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Speaker 2: by the way, gas prices were up about another twenty

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Speaker 2: five cents in the last three days. Current average in

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Speaker 2: the state of Indiana today, according to Triple A three

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Speaker 2: dollars and seventy nine cents. That's up an entire dollar

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Speaker 1: The average residential electric bill is up one hundred and

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Speaker 1: ten dollars compared to twenty twenty four and we're paying

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Speaker 1: the price for all of these bad energy policies Indiana.

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Speaker 1: The regulators are now calling major energy providers to explain

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Speaker 1: the rising bills and also exam examine ways to improve.

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Speaker 3: Affordability for customers. What are they gonna do. Put everybody

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Speaker 3: in a room and say, hey, why are everyone's bills

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Speaker 3: so high? H Well, somebody should do something.

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Speaker 2: Well, It sounded like they're talking a good game again,

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Speaker 2: just like Mike Brown talk a good game, talk about Oh,

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Speaker 2: we got to find this out, we got to figure

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Speaker 2: out why rates are so high. And then we don't

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Speaker 2: see much action on this. You know, keep in mind, it.

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Speaker 3: Was a year got a task force on it.

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Speaker 2: It was a year ago yesterday, Casey, that you were

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Speaker 2: at the State House with a thousand people. They're rallying

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Speaker 2: to try and bring down property taxes because life is

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Speaker 2: so unaffordable. And we got a watered down, awful version

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Speaker 2: of SB one that made nobody happy. The local communities

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Speaker 2: and school districts aren't happy, taxpayers aren't happy. Nobody is

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Speaker 1: So you have the Academy Awards on Sunday night and

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Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien he made a joke and he was referencing

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Speaker 1: Kid Rock during his opening monologue.

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Speaker 3: Let's listen to the joke. Here is ConA O'Brien at

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Speaker 3: the Academy Awards.

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Speaker 5: I should warn you tonight could get okay, and if

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Speaker 5: that makes you uncomfortable, there's an alternate oscars being hosted

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Speaker 5: by Kid Rock. Yeah, it's at the David Busters down

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Speaker 5: the street. A lot of tickets for.

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Speaker 3: That, so he was taken.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, he's making reference to the All American Halftime Show,

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Speaker 1: which was the conservative alternate performance during the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: halftime show. And Kid Rock responded on X and he

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Speaker 1: says that he loves a good joke, but he didn't

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Speaker 1: think O'Brien's was very good.

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Speaker 2: What is so funny about that is so you get

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Speaker 1: Kid Rock went on to say, either way, if you

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Speaker 3: There's a reason for this, trust me.

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Speaker 1: And so I think Kid Rock took took a joke

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'd like Conan O'Brien. I think he's funny.

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Speaker 1: from the WYBC newsroom. John at Cruz is joining us,

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Speaker 1: and you have got a story to tell. Who's your

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Speaker 1: Native goes viral following Netflix's Age of Attraction. First of us,

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Speaker 1: thank you for being here. What is Netflix's Age of Attraction?

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Speaker 6: So it is an age gap dating show. So people

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Speaker 3: Okay, so you have a friend, I do my.

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Speaker 7: Bestest friend in the whole wife we're on this show. Yes,

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Speaker 7: her name is Ashley and she's from Fisher's.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so tell us what did she did? She find

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so what we can reveal is that she made

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Speaker 3: Did she tell you we're the younger or older since

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Speaker 3: we don't know anybody's age. Yeah, I can't.

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Speaker 6: I can't reveal that either I know what so much

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Speaker 1: Did they make her fine non disclosure agreement?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but not you I know not but I'm you know,

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Speaker 7: What's so interesting is that she saw.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so if we watched this Age of Attraction show,

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Speaker 6: You see her in the background, you see her. They

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Speaker 6: she started talking about her story, how she experienced this

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Speaker 7: This happened a year ago, mind you.

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Speaker 6: So she's trying to rehash all the things, and towards

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Speaker 6: and when that happened, it opened Pandora's box, because then

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Speaker 2: Just like the movie. Yeah, amazing. I'm shocked that they,

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Speaker 7: Literally, Like, I could not believe they did that. I

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Speaker 2: And so you're saying though that she has kind of

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Speaker 7: Yes, all of a sudden, I don't know where.

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Speaker 1: I know?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's her age of attraction. R's okay.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And it was a friend that actually signed her

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Speaker 7: Part of this on her own.

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Speaker 3: No, you had mentioned that she's going to be on

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Speaker 6: Yes, we're going to be on this afternoon at four

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Speaker 3: Warned her in the studio.

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Speaker 7: I know, boy, I warned her.

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Speaker 6: And you know, for those of you, we have a

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Speaker 1: Now, you write an article about this and it's at

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Speaker 1: WYBC dot com. What was that like writing an article

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Speaker 6: It's so hilarious. I called her and I said, this

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Speaker 2: Good for you doing what a good journalist does. Even

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Speaker 2: the interviewer exactly. Well, that's a fun story.

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Speaker 1: John at Cruz from WIBC newsroom is in this studio.

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Speaker 1: Let's change gears and go to this other story that

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Speaker 3: Henry County faces one point one.

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Speaker 1: Million dollar insurance bill after excessive claims.

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay, what are the claims?

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Speaker 6: So mainly it's coming out of this sheriff's department because

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Speaker 7: The result of all this.

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Speaker 6: How do we continue to ensure the county knowing that

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Speaker 7: First of March?

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Speaker 3: Is it I mean? Is that common?

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Speaker 6: It's it's it's a high the highest a county I believe,

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Speaker 3: Allow it not at all.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely all of my dms.

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Speaker 6: to go in to get food or whatever.

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Speaker 7: They searched her.

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Speaker 6: They did all the things, they didn't find anything, but

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Speaker 6: she alleges that the way they searched her was very

442
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Speaker 6: inappropriately and then from that point on, the specific IA

443
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Speaker 6: officer basically made her life a living hell. They went

444
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Speaker 6: in and they beat up her husband. He had an

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Speaker 6: orbital fracture. His right eye will never be the same again.

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Speaker 6: And so now this specific officer, he ended up the

447
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Speaker 6: husband ended up going to another facility getting transferred, he

448
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Speaker 6: found out. And so it's like he keeps continuing to

449
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Speaker 6: do these things. And so I did not name the

450
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Speaker 6: officer in my article, considering it's an accusation, we don't

451
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Speaker 6: know if it's true. I did file a report as

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Speaker 6: well with the IDEOC on top of sending the email.

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Speaker 6: I've never gotten a response for both. And then what

454
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Speaker 6: was I found interesting was that when I posted the story,

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Speaker 6: I actually had several people named the officer.

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Speaker 3: In the comments.

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Speaker 6: Wow okay, yeah, So I was like, okay, that, well

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Speaker 6: this tracks right, not.

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Speaker 2: As well kept of a secret as you might have thought.

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Speaker 3: Correct. What are you working on today?

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Speaker 6: Oh gosh, today I feel like I have so much

462
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Speaker 6: going on. So March's Disability Awareness months, So I had

463
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Speaker 6: an interview with Sycamore Services. I'm talking about just you know,

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Speaker 6: creating awareness for the month of March in terms of

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Speaker 6: physical and mental disabilities that people have in their services

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Speaker 6: that they have over in that area. And then a

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Speaker 6: couple other things. I do have some other IDEOC stories

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Speaker 6: that I'm also working than you coming.

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Speaker 7: They do, they have to.

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Speaker 6: Keep coming, and so I'm going to continue to work

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Speaker 6: on those and I actually am working on several custody

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Speaker 6: cases as well.

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Speaker 1: And you're going to be on with Hammer and Nigel

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Speaker 1: and I'll be forty five today.

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Speaker 3: Busy day for you. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: John at Cruz you're listening to ninety three WYBC.

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Speaker 3: You can't run.

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Speaker 1: Essential security on goodwill. Expecting TSSAY officers to work without

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Speaker 1: pay during this shutdown, It's bound to lead to higher

480
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Speaker 1: absences and that is exactly what is happening. TSA absence

481
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Speaker 1: rate has jumped ten percent during this partial federal government

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Speaker 1: shut down, and it's.

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Speaker 3: Probably just going to get higher.

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Speaker 1: Normally it's at at two percent when there's no shutdown,

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Speaker 1: and now it's at ten percent. You've got some airports

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Speaker 1: that have been hit harder than others, Atlanta, New York, JFK,

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Speaker 1: and Houston. They're seeing a higher absence rates, sometimes twenty

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Speaker 1: percent or more and even over fifty percent in some cases.

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Speaker 1: And you're the one who's suffers because of this. Democrats

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Speaker 1: they refuse to reopen TSA and FEMA unless they can

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Speaker 1: reopen the conversation about the border and you're the one

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Speaker 1: suffering for this, and so are the TSA agents who

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Speaker 1: are not getting paid.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it makes sense. Look, don't blame the TSA

495
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Speaker 2: agents at all. They're just kind of the innocent bystanders

496
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Speaker 2: that are stuck in the middle here. And I think

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Speaker 2: that the numbers that you just rattled off there were

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Speaker 2: pretty shocking. So a normal typical absence rate across all

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Speaker 2: two percent airports TSA two percent. Now it's ten percent,

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Speaker 2: and some airports it's dramatically higher than ten percent. Oh,

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Speaker 2: by the way, that doesn't include the hundreds of TSA

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Speaker 2: officials and employees that have already quit their jobs because

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Speaker 2: of this. Hey, look, some of them forget that you're

504
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Speaker 2: not getting I'm not getting paid. I'm probably gonna say

505
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Speaker 2: see you and quit the job. The others that have

506
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Speaker 2: stuck around are calling in sick and it's causing big problems.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, we are right in the middle

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Speaker 2: of spring break travel season, so you've got tons of

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Speaker 2: families and college kids fly into warm weather destinations all

510
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Speaker 2: over the country. So you've got a surge in airport

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Speaker 2: traffic happening at the exact same time when we don't

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Speaker 2: have enough TSA agents to staff the all the airports

513
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Speaker 2: across the country. And again this morning we had reports,

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Speaker 2: you know, certain airports across the country just today two

515
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Speaker 2: three four hour long waits just for TSA.

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Speaker 3: Yep, they haven't been paid for weeks.

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Speaker 1: They're working without pay, they're missing paychecks, and they're calling out,

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Speaker 1: they're calling in six some are even quitting, like you mentioned.

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Speaker 3: So far, you have over three.

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Speaker 1: Hundred TSA officers that have quit since the shutdown started.

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Speaker 1: And airport lines showing up three four hours.

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Speaker 2: That's no good, no, And you know this is part

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Speaker 2: of the problem. And you know there's there's not much

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Speaker 2: slack in the system to be able to be able

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Speaker 2: to absorb something like this. We've gotten really efficient in

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Speaker 2: this country and ninety nine percent of the time. That's great.

527
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Speaker 2: You get efficient, you cut out anything extra or bloat

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Speaker 2: or waste, and that's a great thing. But that means

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Speaker 2: when you're that efficient, you don't have any room for

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Speaker 2: any errors or any things that are unexpected. We saw

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Speaker 2: this during COVID. Our supply chains and international shipping were

532
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Speaker 2: really tight and very efficient. COVID comes along and disrupts

533
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Speaker 2: that and all of a sudden, supply chains are a

534
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Speaker 2: disaster and we can't get the goods and services that

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Speaker 2: we expect. It's very similar to what's happening here with TSA.

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Speaker 2: They were very tight, very efficient. This government shutdown kind

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Speaker 2: of comes out of nowhere, and there's not enough slack

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Speaker 2: in the system to be able to absorb it.

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Speaker 1: You've got the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and

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Speaker 1: he said the Democrats are denying the pay of roughly

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty thousand employees of the Department of

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security, fueling the third longest shut down in American history.

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Speaker 8: Their latest proposal would only partially fund DHS while stripping

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Speaker 8: funding for ICE and Customs and border patrol. As leaders

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Speaker 8: police just reminded you, the discharge petition is really a

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Speaker 8: petition to defund the police. Think of it. The law

547
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Speaker 8: enforcement agencies that are the part of the Department of

548
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Speaker 8: Homeland Security are what they are targeting. Democrats refuse to

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Speaker 8: reopen TSA and FEMA and the Coastguard and these other

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Speaker 8: critical functions of government unless they can reopen our borders

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Speaker 8: to illegal aliens, because that's exactly what their gambit would accomplish.

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Speaker 8: This is not a serious position, So it's.

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Speaker 1: Time to recognize that these Democrats they don't intend to

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Speaker 1: participate in any sort of common sense legislation.

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Speaker 2: You know what, And I'm really glad Mike john Mom,

556
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Speaker 2: what's over. I'm really glad Mike Johnson said something there

557
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Speaker 2: about illegals, because keep in mind, under the Biden administration,

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Speaker 2: we know that Joe Biden wanted all of those you know,

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Speaker 2: ten million, twenty million, whatever the number is, illegals that

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Speaker 2: came into the country during his administration, and the Democrats

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Speaker 2: in Congress, by the way, sat by completely silent, didn't

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Speaker 2: say a word about that. And now we're talking about

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Speaker 2: funding DHS, which not only covers TSA, but also covers

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Speaker 2: customs and border patrol and border enforcement, and they have

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Speaker 2: no interest in doing it because they want to go back.

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Speaker 2: They were silent during Joe Biden when all the illegals

567
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Speaker 2: are coming in because they were like, yeah, guess what

568
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Speaker 2: we're gonna do. We're gonna turn them into voter someday

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Speaker 2: and they're gonna vote for republic and they're gonna vote

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Speaker 2: for Democrats. So the Democrats have been at the forefront

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Speaker 2: of this this entire time. They were right there when

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Speaker 2: Biden let all these illegals come in and now they're

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Speaker 2: right there again when it comes to funding DHS and

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Speaker 2: not letting it go through.

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Speaker 1: You can't, on one hand label these workers as essential

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Speaker 1: and then not pay them the two they're not congruent.

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Speaker 3: You can't do that. You can't say you're essential, but

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Speaker 3: we're not going to pay you.

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Speaker 2: The government does an outstanding job, but doing just that

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Speaker 2: of talking out of both sides of their mouth and

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Speaker 2: things that don't make sense, and you explained it perfectly. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: these are essential workers TSA. We need to have them.

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Speaker 2: Oh do we want to pay them? No? No, no,

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Speaker 2: no no.

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Speaker 1: So they're either essential or they're not. What it's doing,

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Speaker 1: it's just dragging everything out. It's weakening security, and you

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Speaker 1: got to know that it's not a bargaining chip right

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Speaker 1: in these budget fights. They're putting Americans security at risk

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Speaker 1: by delaying this.

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Speaker 2: Also, by the way, doing that at a time when

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Speaker 2: we're currently at war. They ran in the Middle East

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Speaker 2: and we've already had four lone wolf attacks in this

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Speaker 2: country since that war started. Austin Texas, Texas, New York City,

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Speaker 2: one up in Michigan, and then wanted Old Dominion University.

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Speaker 3: So you've got the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.

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Speaker 1: He goes on to say that American airports are at

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Speaker 1: their breaking point.

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Speaker 8: American airports obviously are reaching a breaking point so severe

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Speaker 8: that airlines are pleading with Democrats to please fund the

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Speaker 8: Department of Homeland Security. It's fallen on deaf fiars four

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Speaker 8: separate times. Republicans have voted a fully fund DHS since

602
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Speaker 8: this chaos ensued four times, and on each of those times,

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Speaker 8: Democrats voted almost unanimously to block the funding. Now, instead

604
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Speaker 8: of we're doing what's right and putting an end to

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Speaker 8: this charade, Democrats insist on tearing the bill apart, piece

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Speaker 8: by piece.

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Speaker 3: So what's going on in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: Well, you've had over a dozen agents have quit recently

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Speaker 1: because they weren't paid. Another half dozen called in sick,

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Speaker 1: which is much higher than normal. And now you have

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Speaker 1: word that there are going to be some smaller airports

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Speaker 1: they could be forced to completely shut down because the

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Speaker 1: security checkpoints can't be staffed sufficiently.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine what it's like if you were the

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Speaker 2: CEO or one of the top executives at a major

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Speaker 2: airline in this country right now, United Delta Southwest, Jet, Blue, Frontier, whatever,

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Speaker 2: one of the big ones. And you are looking at

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Speaker 2: two massive things that are happening that are totally beyond

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Speaker 2: your control. Number one, airports are a disaster because there's

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Speaker 2: not enough TSA staff members in there to keep the

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Speaker 2: lines at a reasonable level. And then number two, the

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Speaker 2: price of gas and jet fuel has absolutely gone through

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Speaker 2: the roof because of the war in Iran. If you're

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Speaker 2: running an airline right now, two things that are absolutely

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Speaker 2: totally out of your control are totally jacking up your business.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of sympathy for them, because

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Speaker 2: the airlines have been screwing US consumers for a long time,

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Speaker 2: charging US bag fees and all sorts of other fees

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Speaker 2: and gouging us on prices. But still it puts you

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Speaker 2: in a situation where those airlines really don't have what

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Speaker 2: can they do TSA. That's not our control. Gas prices

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Speaker 2: and jet fuel prices also not our control, and both

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Speaker 2: of those things you're crushing us right now.

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Speaker 1: So what you've got is you've got travelers who are

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Speaker 1: paying the price for federal gridlock, and not only in

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Speaker 1: the wait times, in the cost, but also our safety

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Speaker 1: and security.

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Speaker 2: All all three of them, and make no bones about it.

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Speaker 2: The Democrats are responsible for this. They'll try to cole posture,

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Speaker 2: they'll try and tell you something about how they're not.

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Speaker 2: They'll tell you some sweet story and Chuck Schumer will

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Speaker 2: get up there and spend some sort of bs to

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Speaker 2: make you believe that they're not responsible for this. It

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Speaker 2: could happen tomorrow. And again this goes back to the filibuster.

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Speaker 2: They need sixty votes and that means they have to

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Speaker 2: have some Democrats on board with this to have it

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Speaker 2: go through. And the Democrats are not playing ball. And

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Speaker 2: I think the Democrats know they can kind of get

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Speaker 2: away with this right now because everybody's distracted by what's

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Speaker 2: going on in Iran. That is sucking up the oxygen

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Speaker 2: out of the room. Everybody's attention on what is going

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Speaker 2: on Iran, and rightly so, by the way, and the

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Speaker 2: Democrats can sit here and just be obstructionists. And it's

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Speaker 2: kind of flying under the radar for the most part.

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Speaker 1: So Richard Polly is a seventy eight year old man.

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Speaker 1: He's from Manchester, Tennessee, and he went viral after being

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Speaker 1: seen delivering Starbucks slowly up a driveway apparently he had

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Speaker 1: to come out of retirement because his wife was sick

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Speaker 1: and needed some medical care. And somebody's doorbell camera caught

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Speaker 1: the image and posted it, and now one of his

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Speaker 1: neighbors had put a GoFundMe page together, and now the

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Speaker 1: donations which have thousands upon thousands of dollars.

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Speaker 3: He's close to being a millionaire.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is I mean, these are the types of

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Speaker 2: stories that when they go viral, they kind of warm

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Speaker 2: your heart, and so many of them don't, but this

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Speaker 2: one does. And it starts off with this guy who

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Speaker 2: he and his elderly wife they need money and so

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Speaker 2: I'm going to start doing DoorDash and somebody catches him

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Speaker 2: on the ring cam finds out his story. The story

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Speaker 2: goes viral, starts to GoFundMe, and as of I think

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Speaker 2: it's higher now, but as of yesterday, his GoFundMe was

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Speaker 2: at five hundred thousand dollars in donations, and by the way,

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Speaker 2: props to door dash, they contributed twenty thousand dollars too.

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Speaker 2: They really fund me, so so a nice heartwarming store

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Speaker 2: all the way around.

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Speaker 1: He said he's going to use the money to help

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Speaker 1: ease financial pressure, cover bills and medical costs and it

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Speaker 1: will allow the couple to enjoy retirement instead of doing

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Speaker 1: grueling gig work. You're listening to ninety three WIBC.

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Speaker 3: Good Morning.

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Speaker 1: This sounds very much like science fiction, but it is

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Speaker 1: real world. And for our best Audio of the Day segment,

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Speaker 1: we turned to Elon Musk Back in January. He said

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Speaker 1: that they're going to begin high volume production of their

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Speaker 1: implant devices, Neurolink, and they're going from small scale experimentation

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Speaker 1: to broad manufacturing, and he said it's going to be

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Speaker 1: almost fully automated. So he's talking here about the Neurolink

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Speaker 1: and this is the brain computer interface device that will

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Speaker 1: be implanted, and he says they have made another breakthrough,

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Speaker 1: and this time it's not about spinal cord injuries or paralysis.

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Speaker 3: This one has to do with site.

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Speaker 9: In the next six to twelve months, we'll be doing

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Speaker 9: our first implants for vision, where even if somebody's completely blind,

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Speaker 9: we can write directly to the visual cortex. But long term,

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Speaker 9: you would have very high resolution and be able to

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Speaker 9: see in multi spectral wavelengths. You could see an infrared,

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Speaker 9: ultra violet radar. It's like a superpower situation.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine how incredible. That would be if you

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Speaker 1: have lost your site and you get this procedure and

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Speaker 1: then one day you can see.

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm an unabashed Elon Musk fanboy with this guy

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Speaker 2: is able to do. And look, I talked about it

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Speaker 2: yesterday about how you know, as soon as that, as

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Speaker 2: soon as the first Optimist robot from Tesla and Elon

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Speaker 2: Musk rolls off the assembly line, I'm right there to

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Speaker 2: buy it. And I caught a little crap for that

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Speaker 2: and the YouTube chat and even somebody who works here

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Speaker 2: at the station came in afterwards. It was like, I

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Speaker 2: don't know about you, but I'd shoot that thing right

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Speaker 2: in the head. And if there's a really saw a robot,

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Speaker 2: And so I get it. With technology, there's good that

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Speaker 2: comes with bad, and I think that far too many

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Speaker 2: times people focus on the bad aspects of it. But

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Speaker 2: I mean, is there anything that Elon Musk can't do?

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Speaker 2: He is about to give blind people site. I mean,

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Speaker 2: just think about that. It's incredible what he's able to do.

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Speaker 2: With some of these companies.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of conversation about who is paying for this,

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Speaker 1: you know, is this something that will be covered by

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Speaker 1: insurance or is the participant going to have to pay

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Speaker 1: for this or will Elon Musk be offering to pay

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Speaker 1: for it to get the technology.

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Speaker 3: On par with where it should be.

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Speaker 1: I mean, gosh, wouldn't you be nervous to be the

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Speaker 1: first patient?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Okay maybe, but look and again, I think that comes

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Speaker 2: down to the individual. If I have been blind my

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Speaker 2: entire life, I'd be the first one to sign up

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Speaker 2: for this for an opportunity to be able to see

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Speaker 2: when you've never been able to do that in your

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Speaker 2: entire life. Can we just list the things the incredible

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Speaker 2: accomplishments that Elon Musk has done for Star created the

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Speaker 2: first new, real big car company in this country and generations.

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Speaker 2: The auto industry in this country has been dominated by

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Speaker 2: the Big Three forever. They've quashed all their competitors. Shoot,

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Speaker 2: they made a movie about it called Tucker when he

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Speaker 2: tried launching his car in the fifties and the Big

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Speaker 2: Three basically put their thumb down on him with the

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Speaker 2: help of the government and got him out of there.

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Speaker 2: So he was the first person to ever really challenged

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Speaker 2: the Big three automakers. He shoots rockets off into space

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Speaker 2: and catches them with chopped sticks. He creates tunnels underneath

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas and then fills them with automated cars. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Elon Musk is incredible and Neurolink. Out of all the

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Speaker 2: technology that he's been a part of inventing and bringing

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Speaker 2: to market, this may end up being the most impactful

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Speaker 2: for certain individuals.

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Speaker 1: Give in mind he does get a lot of subsidies

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Speaker 1: from the government. Neurolink currently focusing on paralysis, als, speech impairment,

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Speaker 1: and also Alzheimer's and dementia. He says it could help

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Speaker 1: with early stages by restoring communication, recognition and also cognitive functions,

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Speaker 1: but it is limited to late stages due to neurin loss.

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Speaker 3: All right, we've got our FBI guy joining us.

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Speaker 4: Next.

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