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Speaker 1: Brad Cloppenstein. Jerry Lopez filling in on The kend and

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Speaker 1: Casey Show, Friday, January second. Jerry got some big news,

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Speaker 1: sad news.

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Speaker 2: They're shutting down our Somali daycare.

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Speaker 1: That's not what I was talking about. But thank God,

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Speaker 1: don't worry. The hip hugger still exists. That's way insider

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Speaker 1: baseball for our conversation from yesterday. No, Jerry, George and

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Speaker 1: them all Clooney, they are now French. Okay, I mean

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Speaker 1: I don't yeah, so tes no do we have to

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Speaker 1: say George Clooney.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I hate you Americans?

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Speaker 1: I don't. This is a big thing for me.

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Speaker 2: Like just because you're good at some kind of media,

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Speaker 2: even this, even like radio, like you don't know us,

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Speaker 2: you just know the radio.

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Speaker 1: Personal.

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Speaker 2: Really, you don't know Cob Bryant. You don't know what

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Speaker 2: happened in that hotel room. Just because he played basketball

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean he's not a regular person. So when we

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Speaker 2: start putting all these people on pedestals, it's like, who cares? Man,

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Speaker 2: Like what if you could. You're a good actor, George,

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Speaker 2: and I think you're a good philanthropist. The problem is

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Speaker 2: you came out and you did the supporting ob and

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Speaker 2: got real political, like there have all been doing, and

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Speaker 2: it's ruining the way that I look at a lot

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Speaker 2: of these people.

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Speaker 1: So now I was reading the story on this. So

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Speaker 1: France offered them citizenship just based on their career success

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Speaker 1: and the notoriety they bring. Now, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Clooney was one of the ones who said, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump gets reelected, I'm out. It sounds like France

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Speaker 1: just offered it to him. Which then a bunch of

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Speaker 1: French people are all up in arms, say, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: he's notes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not an illegal immigrant.

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Speaker 1: What's he doing here?

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Speaker 2: Jerry?

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Speaker 1: Can we say that on the radio? I can, I can't.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if his wife's gonna have to put

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Speaker 2: on a burka or not. But strap up, baby, because

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Speaker 2: it's being taken over.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So, so the French are upset that he did

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Speaker 1: go through the process that it comes to become French.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we got to quit and lose a couple

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Speaker 2: of wards or something like. I don't know what you

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Speaker 2: got to.

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Speaker 1: Do exactly, Gotta eat Vignet's and capes and yeah, spit

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Speaker 1: on the floor a couple of times. Right, So now

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Speaker 1: you mentioned yes he's not Muslim, but that then goes

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Speaker 1: into the next topic. I wanted to talk about, what

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Speaker 1: is Europe going to do. They's not they have it.

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Speaker 1: They have a Muslim immigration problem. And you want to

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Speaker 1: be sympathetic. And if somebody is being oppressed in their

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Speaker 1: current home, you want to give them some place to land.

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Speaker 1: But if they come in and then say, well, we

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Speaker 1: want to make this exactly like the place we left because.

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Speaker 2: It was such an shole, take your butt back, then, right, Like,

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Speaker 2: I feel very very educated to speak on this subject.

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Speaker 1: Okay, my family's from Cuba.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we my mom and dad did not come here

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Speaker 2: to turn this place into Cuba. They left that place

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Speaker 2: to come for the American dream. Right thing I say

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Speaker 2: about protesters waving flags of other nations.

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Speaker 1: If you want to wave your Mexican.

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Speaker 2: Flag at a protest, go back to Mexico, bro, Like,

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Speaker 2: don't come here and cry about us making you leave

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Speaker 2: if it sucks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, pretty much all of us came from somewhere else,

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Speaker 1: and there's nothing wrong with being proud of your heritage, right,

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Speaker 1: but once you get here, yeah you're an American.

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Speaker 2: So but what you're talking about in Europe and the

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Speaker 2: West is that these groups are using empathetic lefties, and

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Speaker 2: we're all empathetic to the plight of some of these people,

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Speaker 2: but we're not talking We're talking about what I would

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Speaker 2: call military age males, right, We're not talking about a

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Speaker 2: bunch of single moms or old the whalers. We're talking

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Speaker 2: that are just overrunning these places and they're using our

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Speaker 1: They can of are. I mean, I've always said America

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Speaker 1: works because we don't let politics and religion intermingle much,

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Speaker 1: they've always intertwined a little bit. But when you start

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Speaker 1: don't fear reprisals from whoever the winning side was you're

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Speaker 1: still allowed to participate, You're still allowed to say your piece,

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Speaker 1: You're just not the one exactly. That's so, yes, we

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Speaker 1: where Europe is going to come to a head because

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Speaker 1: yes they I know what I think Denmark just I

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Speaker 1: think they cut off Muslim immigration altogether. And it's because

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Speaker 2: And we look at Nigeria, right, Nigeria they had where

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Speaker 2: President Trump had to go in there and actually like

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Speaker 2: strike Nigeria because they had these radical, radical Islamis that

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Speaker 1: And there's twenty twenty five. I mean, it's crazy. This

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's just because I'm not very religious one way

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Speaker 1: or anyway really, but fighting over religion seems to be

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Speaker 1: one of the dumbest things you could possibly ever do.

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Speaker 2: So I would I would disagree, Okay, I would say

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Speaker 2: that if and I'm not uber religious, but I do

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Speaker 2: believe in God, Jesus King, if this is your ever

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Speaker 2: after right, if if heaven or wherever is supposed to be,

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Speaker 2: the end isn't that worth fighting for.

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Speaker 1: For you, right, but not for you posing it on

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Speaker 2: You're right, agreed. In my America, you do you, I

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Speaker 2: do me? And who cares exactly?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't know what religion my neighbors are.

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Speaker 1: I don't really care. It's none of my business. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my business. Hey, what's up, Hope? You're good? If you anything,

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Speaker 1: let me know, right. Yeah, I appreciate that you want

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Speaker 1: to save my soul or you. I don't appreciate it

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Speaker 1: so much if you want to kill me because you

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Speaker 1: think I'm an infidel. Agreed, But yeah, you do. You

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Speaker 1: all do me. Gold rules seems to work. But I

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Speaker 1: mean even you look Ireland, the Protestants and Catholics have

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Speaker 1: been fighting for eons and nobody ever wins a religious war.

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Speaker 1: I mean it goes on in the Middle East. They

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Speaker 1: have been fighting for four thousand years of religion. You

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Speaker 1: know what, nobody ever wins. There's not a right answer.

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Speaker 2: And you're just you're just creating more hate in division.

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Speaker 2: You are right because now you have And I thought

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Speaker 2: about this when I was in Iraq, like some of

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Speaker 2: these kids only know America being here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course they hate us, which in theory we

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Speaker 1: But instead, yeah, it seems like wherever we go then

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Speaker 1: people just hate us. I don't know. So what would

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Speaker 1: your for if Jerry Lopez, would you become president, what's

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Speaker 1: your forger and foreign policy going to be? Are we

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Speaker 1: going to be protect our borders and our shores and yeah,

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Speaker 1: but the rest of the world slug it out themselves,

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Speaker 1: I mean, not slug it out.

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Speaker 2: But I think that we're seeing now with this Trump

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Speaker 2: presidency that the world is better when people fear America

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Speaker 2: actually stepping in when they get out of hand. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and maybe we don't necessarily have to, we don't want to.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, look at Biden. Biden didn't get involved

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Speaker 2: in any of that stuff, and look what happened around

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Speaker 2: only a matter of time for China went after Taiwan.

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Speaker 2: Right with Donald Trump, it's like the Hamas and Israel, like,

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Speaker 2: we're good, we don't want any problems, right, everybody's just

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Speaker 2: shutting it down.

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Speaker 1: I think that's great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So it'd be America first, because the rest of

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Speaker 2: the world is better when when we're when we're number one.

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Speaker 1: I agree, yes, when we're strong, because I like to

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Speaker 1: think that we're a fairly pretty fair arbiter of things

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Speaker 1: that go on. And I'm not sure that we necessarily

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Speaker 1: we can. Yeah, and yeah, that seems to serve us

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Speaker 1: well in the periods of time where it's the speak softly,

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Speaker 1: carry a big stick sort of thing. Exactly, you want

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Speaker 1: people to be a little bit afraid of you because

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Speaker 1: you don't want them walking all over you. But it's

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Speaker 1: you know, some of these some of these countries are

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Speaker 1: they're kind of like the small kid that's a bully.

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Speaker 1: Every once in a while they need punched, yep, to

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Speaker 1: so in your world, Jerry, where should we have bases

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Speaker 1: all over the world? Should we maintain them? What's your thing?

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Speaker 2: So, so in Maya, if you we will put a

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Speaker 2: base in your country, but you're going to pay for it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, we're helping you. We'll do that. So

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Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on Germany ramping up their defense spending.

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Speaker 1: I'll know what for, Like, we're there, I think we

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Speaker 1: need to leave Germany.

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Speaker 2: Unless we're all there for some Russia type deal, which

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Speaker 2: I'll give you. But we're in a lot of places

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Speaker 2: like for what, right, just just to have a base there,

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Speaker 2: and we're probably paying for all that.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, we definitely are paying for it. Yeah, so no,

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Speaker 1: I exactly, I mean, I yeah, historically I can see

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Speaker 1: But you're right, I would rather have Germany chipping in

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Speaker 1: to defend the border because yeah, they're a lot more

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Speaker 1: imminent threat to Russia than than we are. Right, we

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Speaker 2: Right and listen, there's only been one country that's used Nukeston.

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Speaker 2: We've done it twice, that's true. Right, As long as

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Speaker 2: you got that in your back pocket, people tend to

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Speaker 1: Right, So yeah, and it's yeah, it's good to have

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Speaker 1: that threat. So you're listening, Brad Clofenstein, Jerry Lopez. We

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Speaker 1: are filling in for Kendall Casey today. Would we come back, Jerry,

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Speaker 1: We are going to fix healthcare as you and I

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Speaker 1: in about ten minutes worth the time. We're going to

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Speaker 1: make this happen. So we will be right back ninety

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Speaker 1: three WIBC. Jerry Lopez, Brad Clofenstein filling in for Rob

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Speaker 1: and Casey. They are enjoying their holiday. They get one

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Speaker 1: more day off. We'll be back here on Monday, I believe. So, Jerry,

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Speaker 1: we'll have a good time with you today.

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Speaker 2: Man, well, I was just saying, all fair. I'm like, man,

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Speaker 2: this we just flowed. We haven't played any clips, we

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Speaker 2: haven't played anything. We're just chit chat outing.

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Speaker 1: Two guys talking. If we had beer in front of us,

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Speaker 1: that would make this show that much better. It would,

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Speaker 1: so we'll have to work on that. So now behave yourself.

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Speaker 1: I know that my dad's listening right now. So he

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Speaker 1: lives down in Evansville, but he Jockey's cars for car

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Speaker 1: dealership that has dealerships down in Evansville and up here

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Speaker 1: in Central Indiana.

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Speaker 2: So I should not tell him. You try to talk

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Speaker 2: me in the body shots before the show.

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Speaker 1: I thought that wouldn't surprise. It was weird.

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Speaker 2: You're like, put pour this in your belly button, Jerry.

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Speaker 1: So price hikes are coming to the ACA health insurance

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's nothing free, all right. I know everybody

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Speaker 1: Right, so you's free.

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Speaker 2: But I think we can fix all these problems in

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Speaker 1: Yeah, then I should have some say and how you

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Speaker 2: Well, so in the future, if you have any questions,

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Speaker 2: We only have one for free health care, but it's

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Speaker 2: got to join the militaire. No, you gotta come back

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Speaker 1: Then well, then one of our segments will be ailmut talk.

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Speaker 2: There it is there. It is my joints hurt.

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Speaker 1: Brother, that is a daily occurrence. We can talk about

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Speaker 1: that right now. So so there we go. So you're

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Speaker 1: Jared Lewis, we're going to be talking about fighting mother nature.

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Speaker 1: It's the time of year I hate the most, Jerry,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to figure out how to make the

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Speaker 1: You're listened to The Kendall O Casey Show on ninety

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Speaker 1: three WIBC Brad Clothenstein. Jerry Lopez filling in my daytime job.

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Speaker 1: I run the Lawrence Chamber, Great Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. Jerry,

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Speaker 1: you're just a vagabond, right yep, just slumming it. I

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Speaker 1: the actually you truly are the utility man of WIBC.

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Speaker 2: I am. I am six Man of the Year, six man.

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Speaker 2: That's why I say, did you get a major award

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't need a ward. Did you get acknowledged? No,

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Speaker 1: stinking trophies. We don't do this for trophies. So you

434
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Speaker 1: can love it the game. Brat. Did you get a

435
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:46,240
Speaker 1: fruit basket or anything for Christmas? No? No, I do

436
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,600
Speaker 1: get a check. That's good enough. Okay, that's good enough.

437
00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,760
Speaker 1: There we go as long as that clears. So, Jerry,

438
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,440
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about mother nature and

439
00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,440
Speaker 1: how you fight it. So it's that time of year

440
00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,760
Speaker 1: where the days are short. Fortunately, there's starting to get

441
00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 1: moderately longer. Well moderately, I think we're gaining forty five

442
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 1: seconds a day or something, maybe a minute. The days

443
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,760
Speaker 1: are starting to get longer, but average high as thirty seven.

444
00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,280
Speaker 1: We may or may not see the sun between now

445
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Speaker 1: and the first of March. Last week we had that

446
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:22,160
Speaker 1: storm roll through what Sunday where it was mid upper

447
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 1: sixties during the day and then the winds blew through

448
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 1: and it was ten degrees that night. It kicked up

449
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:31,560
Speaker 1: twenty five foot waves on Lake Michigan. How do you

450
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,320
Speaker 1: fight winter? Stay inside? I hate the winner. I'm not

451
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 1: a You're not a spicy guy. I'm not a cold guy.

452
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,000
Speaker 1: I do not operate well. I'm not a cold guy either.

453
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 1: I like to consider myself a beach guy. I'm not

454
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Speaker 1: sure why I don't just go now. Me and my

455
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 1: wife have made a pledge that we are going to

456
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Speaker 1: start bundling up and walking around, and we're just going

457
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 1: to have to learn to embrace this. If we're going

458
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Speaker 1: to live here, it's you know, for the next sixty days.

459
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Speaker 1: We can't just hole up inside do nothing but eat

460
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 1: wings and drink beer. As good as it sounds. Yeah,

461
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Speaker 1: So I got a cousin that lives in Minneapolis. I

462
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,680
Speaker 1: went up and visited him. I don't know if these

463
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,359
Speaker 1: people are crazy or have just figured it out, but

464
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,080
Speaker 1: like all the ponds up there, will freeze over and

465
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Speaker 1: so he has a pond lake. I mean, there's a

466
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 1: lot of lakes up there, but there's a lake that's

467
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 1: a block from his house and you go down there,

468
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Speaker 1: and they've got like in the summertime at the beach,

469
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,640
Speaker 1: they've got this big concession area. Well in the winter time,

470
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Speaker 1: they've got speakers that are set up that are putting

471
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Speaker 1: music out on the ice. The concession stands open. They're

472
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Speaker 1: selling hot chocolate and hot dogs and things. There's people

473
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Speaker 1: out there ice fishing, there's people out there skating, there's

474
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Speaker 1: people out there that are windsailing, and I mean literally

475
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Speaker 1: there's hundreds of people and this is all over town.

476
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Speaker 2: I mean that sounds awesome. I don't know that i'd

477
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Speaker 2: be out there. I'd be scared of being on the ice.

478
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 2: Like that's as crazy as it sounds like. I'm sure

479
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,720
Speaker 2: it's safe. They're not out there being idiots. But for me,

480
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 2: when when we were always told you see it frozen over,

481
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,640
Speaker 2: don't go walk on there, because you're gonna break through.

482
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Speaker 1: Right well around here to be free and the saw cycles, Yeah,

483
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 1: people drive their trucks out there and nuts, but they

484
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 1: just they do it. I think Wisconsin's kind of the

485
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 1: same way. I mean they get on their snowoll biles,

486
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 1: which at least in Wisconsin, they're just getting on their

487
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: snowoll bills and then they're pub crawling. Yeah.

488
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Speaker 2: So when I was in Iraq, I was attached to

489
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 2: a unit that's from Fort Drum, New York. It's like

490
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,640
Speaker 2: by Buffalo. They would talk to me about the snow.

491
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Speaker 2: They would get up there and they would show me

492
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Speaker 2: pictures and it's just like nuts, We're over here complaining

493
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,239
Speaker 2: about six inches and they're getting like two feet two

494
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Speaker 2: and a half feet of snow. I don't even know

495
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,480
Speaker 2: how you would even get around some I remember there

496
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,200
Speaker 2: was a Bill's playoff game a couple of years ago,

497
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Speaker 2: and a bunch of fans were going around shoveling out

498
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 2: the Bills because they had a big snowstorm.

499
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Speaker 1: Right, they had snowstorm the night before, so well yeah,

500
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Speaker 1: a few years ago Buffalo had all that snow, like

501
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 1: a record amount of snows, like one hundred inches or

502
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Speaker 1: something of the season. Well, then they were dumping all

503
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,120
Speaker 1: they were actually having to get rid of the snow.

504
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 1: They're putting it in dump trucks, trucking it to the

505
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 1: Bill's parking lot and dumping it there. And somebody did

506
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 1: a follow up story in July and there was still

507
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: this big pile of snow that had not yet melted.

508
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm not a snow guy at all. I mean,

509
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:03,919
Speaker 2: this is about the time of year where I look

510
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 2: at my mom like, why are.

511
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: We in Indiana? Like you made this decision? What does

512
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: she say? Yeah, well, yeah, she said, Jerry, We're here

513
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: because of the opportunity. I guess we love the people.

514
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,160
Speaker 2: Could have stayed south by the beach somewhere.

515
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 1: So how many wings can a guy and how many

516
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 1: beers can a guy have over the course of sixty

517
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 1: days to get through this?

518
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 2: I mean, you can have a lot of wings, that's true.

519
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 2: You gotta have a lot of money, though.

520
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: Yeah. So maybe I look at things through sports seasons,

521
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: like right now, you know, football is wrapping up, and

522
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,880
Speaker 1: I look at it, it's like, okay, if we can

523
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: get through college basketball season by the time this tournament starts,

524
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Speaker 1: if they're warming ugh, it's going.

525
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Speaker 2: To start warming up to the same thing once March's

526
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:46,880
Speaker 2: Madness is here.

527
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 1: We're close, right exactly, because March will at least rattle

528
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: off two or three days that hit the seventies, and

529
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 1: it's sunny and I can get through that.

530
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the coldest month of the of the year.

531
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Speaker 1: Is it February? No, it's January. It's January.

532
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,679
Speaker 2: It's same for snow. Snow is usually in January, I think.

533
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Speaker 1: So, I mean it's I had lunch with Brian Wilkes

534
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 1: last week. I need to ask him these questions. But

535
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: I just I do know that right now the average

536
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: high at thirty seven. It will bottom out at like

537
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 1: thirty four thirty five middle of this month, and it

538
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: starts to go back up after about the fifteenth of January,

539
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,199
Speaker 1: and it's all up from there. I mean, yeah, not

540
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 1: up fast enough. So maybe if we all just open

541
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 1: our doors, creaked up the heat, open the doors, share

542
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: the bill go up. So it goes up a little bit.

543
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:36,439
Speaker 1: But so now, Cherry, I also wanted to talk to you.

544
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Speaker 1: There's a bill that was introduced that the legislature obviously

545
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 1: goes into session on Monday. There's a bill that's been introduced.

546
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: It's going to require school corporations across Indiana to have

547
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Speaker 1: a poster with the text of the Ten Commandments in

548
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: each school library and classroom. Where are you on this?

549
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,199
Speaker 2: I think it's overreach for me personally, and I just

550
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,439
Speaker 2: a couple segments ago said yeah, I'm Catholic.

551
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: I believe in God followed Jesus.

552
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 2: This is overreach to me because if you allow it,

553
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 2: if you allow it for Christians, then what stopped somebody

554
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 2: else from doing a different face whatever they are?

555
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: Right?

556
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 2: So if we start saying, okay, Minneapoli schools are going

557
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 2: to start putting up the Quran and stuff like, that's

558
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 2: what the president we're setting it is.

559
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: And I think that's what some people don't understand. I

560
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: know Toddrakeda is wanting to put the Ten Commandments on.

561
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: I think it's not a good president.

562
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:28,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, because what happens if you have like the

563
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 2: the Satanist temple goes, Well, if you guys have your religion,

564
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 2: we want to have our religion then right right?

565
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 1: What about what about the atheists.

566
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 2: Out to any of them? Yeah, well you guys have nothing.

567
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 2: It just a wall with nothing. Yeah, just a frame,

568
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 2: just a picture frame with nothing in it.

569
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Speaker 1: There you go, Son, What there was a couple of

570
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 1: years ago, wasn't there an issue where what there was

571
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Speaker 1: some some Christian group that was outside at the State

572
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: House and they're having a rally for something and it

573
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,199
Speaker 1: was inclement weather, and I think well of the legislators

574
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Speaker 1: that actually invited them in, which then opened the door

575
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 1: to a Satanic wedding after that. Okay, so so yeah,

576
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: it happens. And do you believe in whatever you want it?

577
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not my problem, but I have to

578
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 2: keep in mind that if I infringe on you, then

579
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 2: you have the right to infringe on me, right, And

580
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 2: I want to keep away from all that.

581
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 1: That is the biggest thing. I had that conversation with

582
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: our current lieutenant governor and he was wanting to implement

583
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: all these Christian things in the government. I'm like, because

584
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: he goes, well, we don't want the Muslims doing that.

585
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, the problem is if you do that right now,

586
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: and you set right, you set the precedent that whoever

587
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: the victor is gets to set whatever religion we're going

588
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: to embrace, not even the victory.

589
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 2: You have the acl you chomping at the bit for

590
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 2: something like this.

591
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: Yes, and it's the goes back to what I said

592
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: earlier in the show. If we could just live by

593
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 1: the golden rule, you know you do to me, I'll

594
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: do to you what you what I would want you

595
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: to do to me. I don't know why we can't

596
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: just be cool with each other and say, yeah, we

597
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: have different religions, good luck to you.

598
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we should definitely bring back the pledge.

599
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 2: Don't know if they do the pledge every day? We

600
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 2: should bring that back.

601
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: Which pledge? The Pledge of Allegiance? Well, I know the

602
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: Pledge of Allegiance, but which version I don't know, the

603
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: pre fifties version that did not include under God.

604
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 2: I don't really care which version with but which.

605
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even know. I haven't been around a

606
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: school long.

607
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 2: I mean, if you have an issue with under God,

608
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,959
Speaker 2: you can give me every dollar bill in your pocket,

609
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 2: just that you're not offended. Right, If you're using cash

610
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 2: and you're complaining about under God being somewhere, then like

611
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 2: you have no principles to stand on.

612
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: So all right, now you mentioned cash, we're gonna now

613
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: morph into no more pennies. Yeah, I know, it's not

614
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: a surprise.

615
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 2: They got rid of the one brown coin, you know

616
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 2: what I mean, The one brown guy had a good ride.

617
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: That's a good old day. Sorry.

618
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, they even had him facing the other way.

619
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: Just did my boyd dirty?

620
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,479
Speaker 2: No I don't know how we're gonna carey people come

621
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 2: out with the two coins, so it'll be hell yeah,

622
00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 2: two cent coin.

623
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: We're gonna get the two pen Yeah.

624
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 2: This is weird because you know, I've seen it on McDonald's.

625
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 2: We talked about this. So if you pay with your card,

626
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 2: it costs what it costs. If you pay with cash,

627
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 2: they're going to round your price up or round your

628
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 2: price down because they're not going to give you pennies.

629
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 2: So then like you're going to overpay in a lot.

630
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: Of cases, but more than four cents.

631
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 2: Sure, But if you have two hundred thousand McDonald's points like.

632
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: I do, that adds up. That's the premise for office

633
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: space and also itah yeah, so which I don't know

634
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: how we'll be able to kick in our two cents now.

635
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, there's no such thing, and they'll have

636
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 2: to change the prices on everything here for too long.

637
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's gonna have to be rounding. Yeah.

638
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 2: The issue with this is I think it makes it

639
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 2: one step closer to trying to make it digital currency,

640
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 2: and I don't want that. So I think you should

641
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:51,959
Speaker 2: be forced to accept cash.

642
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, some places just won't do it.

643
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 2: Someplaces are card only. I don't like when I go

644
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 2: to the basketball games whatever and there's no cash, is

645
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: card only. I'm like, that should be illegal. This is

646
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 2: legal tender in this country. You should not be able

647
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 2: to force me to bank, right.

648
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: So how much do you pay in cash and how

649
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Speaker 1: much do you pay with the card?

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Speaker 2: I pay almost everything in cat you know, almost everything

651
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 2: in card these days. If I have cash, it's because

652
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 2: I had to give my kids something and then I

653
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 2: just pulled out twenty dollars for me and then we'll

654
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 2: just see what happens with that.

655
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: But most things are with my card. Okay, my wife

656
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: carries no cash now. I like to have a little

657
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: in my pocket just because which Yeah, most most things

658
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: still get paid with the card, just because it's you know,

659
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: if you buy a take a cass that's fifty bucks,

660
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: it's easier to put it on the card. I don't

661
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: have to walk inside.

662
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you should have the option for cash anywhere

663
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 2: you go.

664
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's I mean that obviously. Well. I used

665
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: to run the Indian License Beverage Association and that was

666
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: always an issue with our members that you know, Visa

667
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: and MasterCard are taking three to four percent of every transaction.

668
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: So you know, if somebody pays with cash, it in

669
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: theory the bar keeps more. Now, the down side of

670
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: that is you're opening yourself up to employee theft.

671
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 2: So there's the pizza joint. I feel bad that I don't

672
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 2: remember the name, but it's right there.

673
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: On the circle. Okay, oh Georgios.

674
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, phenomenal. I'm gonna miss it because we're over here now,

675
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 2: but they have it. If you pay with cash, you're

676
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 2: it's a little cheaper. Great, And I think that's because

677
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 2: they don't have to pay the fee to whoever. Visa

678
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 2: big thing. I mean, it's I mean, if you're doing

679
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,959
Speaker 2: that with a thousand customers a day, that's a big

680
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 2: chunk of money you're losing.

681
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: It is, Yeah, And so Visa and master Card are

682
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: making that just for offering that service, but effectively they

683
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: have now three percent of the economy. Wow. So if

684
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: there's so Indiana sales tax is what seven percent? Then

685
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: you tack another three percent on for Visa MasterCard. So

686
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: ten percent of what you're paying on any transaction is

687
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: either going to taxes or it's just going to Visa.

688
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 2: Not even to the person that sold you it. And

689
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 2: not to the item correct.

690
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: So it's yeah that that starts adding up over a while.

691
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: But I'm with you. It's there's there's a convenience factor

692
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: and going with a card.

693
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, when the network goes down, do you how

694
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 2: can you buy anything?

695
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: Right?

696
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 2: Like, you don't attack America? If you shut down the.

697
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: Internet, We're done.

698
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 2: Oh have you ever given somebody change after they've already

699
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 2: rang up something because you realized, oh, if I give

700
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 2: you seven cents, I get back two dins?

701
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: Instead?

702
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 2: Their heads explode. They don't know how to do basic math, right.

703
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 2: It's like, well I don't and I just pushed all

704
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: the change to you.

705
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: Does this make me a jerk? I paid with cash

706
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: one time, and you know, I gave the girl the

707
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: coins and I'm and she's just sitting there looking at me.

708
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, you owe me fifty cents. She goes,

709
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: how do you know that? And my response was I

710
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: paid attention to math class.

711
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 2: Yeah it does make you yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't

712
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 2: know where you were going with that.

713
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: Definitely, So I'm a jerk. He chose violence that day. Well,

714
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to whoever that clerk was. I'm going to

715
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: continue to pay in cash, and I'm going to continue

716
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: to give coins I would have when the last time

717
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: will be that I get a penny back and change

718
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: like a physical penny.

719
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, I mean start start keeping them.

720
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: Why, I don't know.

721
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 2: Maybe it'll be worth something.

722
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: I could be one of those people that puts a

723
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: pity down and makes a floor out of it in

724
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: my bathroom. There you go, there you go? Yeah, all right, perfect,

725
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: all righty. The cost of that floor just went up

726
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: with scarcity. You're listening to Brad Cloffins sign Jerry Lopez.

727
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: We are filling in for Rob and Casey today. Wohen

728
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: we come back. We are going to be having our

729
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: predictions for twenty twenty six. Jerry. We got to be

730
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: the first ones on the show to make our predictions record,

731
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: so we will be right back after the break. Don't

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Speaker 1: Go Anywhere ninety three WIBC, Kittle and Casey Show. Brad Clothenstein,

733
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: Jerry Lopez filling in. Jerry. I have enjoyed this immensely

734
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Speaker 1: with you today.

735
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Speaker 2: This has been a fun one. It has been a

736
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 2: fun one.

737
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: Been relaxed. January second. I think it helps when the

738
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: expectations are low.

739
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it helps everybody's sluggish today exactly.

740
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: It's some people or well, there's a lot of people

741
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: that are hungover with euphoria from the IU win yesterday.

742
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: So uh, In this last segment that we have, I

743
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: want to get to some predictions with you. I had

744
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: this down at the bottom of the list, but I'm

745
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: going to start with US. As we just mentioned it,

746
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,879
Speaker 1: does I you win an a national championship this year

747
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: and this this goes towards your fandom. Yeah, depending on

748
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: how you answer this, you may or may not chinx it.

749
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I have to say no because I've bet

750
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 2: against them every round.

751
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: I don't know why you hate I.

752
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 2: You Yeah, well I don't hate IU, but yeah, I

753
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,760
Speaker 2: will say no, and I will say that they're only

754
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,320
Speaker 2: going to get better too. They're going to get transfers

755
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 2: that come in. They're gonna now I US is going

756
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 2: to be a football school. It's a destination for sure.

757
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:45,720
Speaker 2: So now you're going to get the kid from Texas

758
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 2: who's going to transfer to IU. The kid from Ohio

759
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 2: State that was the number two receiver behind Jeremiah Smith

760
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 2: that maybe goes to IU because he wants to play now,

761
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 2: So that that's the big thing of all this.

762
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: It's great marketing for the school. But I say, no,

763
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:00,479
Speaker 1: it is. I think, yeah, as long as signetic he's there,

764
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:02,959
Speaker 1: he's telling people to google himself. Yeah.

765
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 2: Fun fact. So Jason Hammer texted me earlier. The championship

766
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 2: the final is in Miami. Right, so the teams that

767
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 2: are left now you have IU is going to play Oregon,

768
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 2: and then you have Miami's gonna.

769
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: Play whoever miss. They're gonna play Old Miss.

770
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 2: If Miami wins, they're gonna play the National championship game

771
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 2: in Miami.

772
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: That's a home game. That is a home game.

773
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 2: IU wins, the Miami kid Mendoza goes back home to

774
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 2: play in a national championship, maybe against Miami.

775
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: Could you imagine that story? Tell would that be your

776
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: dream National championship?

777
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 2: That would be Yeah, that would be a fantastic game.

778
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Hey, they've had a good run. It's well,

779
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 1: it's gonna I'm going to say it's going to continue.

780
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: Hard to beat a team twice. It is very hard

781
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: to beat a team twice. However, as we mentioned, IU

782
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: the number one seed. The next highest remaining seed is

783
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: Oregon at number five, Right, so two three, four, they're

784
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: out and beat them at Oregon. Yes, so, yeah, they

785
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: beat them at Oregon. This is going to be pretty

786
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: much a very pro IU crowd because it's down in Atlanta.

787
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:09,720
Speaker 1: So it's a heck of a lot easier to travel

788
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 1: to Atlanta. That's a five hundred miles. You get down

789
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: there in eight hours if you're driving easy flights down there.

790
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: So I'm going to follow that up with college basketball.

791
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 1: Does Purdue win an ADDY this year? No? No? Yeah,

792
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 1: just too hard.

793
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, the expectations are national championship now at Purdue.

794
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: I think that's huge.

795
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like, iye, you next for year

796
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 2: for football, It's like we expect to make the playoff.

797
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: Once you do that enough, then yes.

798
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 2: National championship will be the expectation. But I think you

799
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 2: just have to get used to getting there.

800
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: Yeah.

801
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 2: I mean, how many times I don't want to bring

802
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 2: up old memories for you, but how many times are

803
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 2: you number one seed and got caught slipping on a

804
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 2: game that you should have blown them out? Oh my gosh, right,

805
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 2: and you have to do that until you realize we

806
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 2: still got to show up and play. Yeah, and you

807
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 2: do that enough times. Now you're in the show. So

808
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 2: the consistency Purdue has says they will in one.

809
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be this year. Okay, Well that

810
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: they've got Westfield's Braden Smith at that point, he's he's

811
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: a baller. He's on track to potentially setting on the

812
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: record for the most career assists in college basketball. He

813
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: is a baller. Yep. Yeah. I mean their core has

814
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: been there now for four years. This is probably as

815
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: good opportunities have had in my lifetime. Love you, if

816
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: you have your group for four years, that's how you

817
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: that's how you get it you it is, which that

818
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: is so rare.

819
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 2: And see the coach, everybody stays around. We already know

820
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 2: unspoken verbiage between teammates, so.

821
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: Just give the nod and the look. That's it. So

822
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: our other prognostications, we're gonna shift it back to politics.

823
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 1: Anything going to be done about property taxes this year?

824
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: I don't think so, And it's really disappointing it is. Yep,

825
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: I don't think so.

826
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 2: And I think that the more the conversation comes out

827
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 2: about property taxes, the rest of us are going to

828
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 2: realize they would just adjust the tax somewhere else and

829
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 2: you're still going to pay the sound out.

830
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: Well, and that's that's the big thing. It doesn't matter

831
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: where you cut taxes unless you cut spending right to

832
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: go along with it. Yes, are going to get their

833
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: money somehow.

834
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 2: And look around. These places are not hurting for cash.

835
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 2: They're just spinning it incorrectly.

836
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: There's we talked about it earlier. There is a lot

837
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: government is ripe for fraud and abuse. And yes, Doge

838
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: was not wrong. Yep, and I wish they would have

839
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: continued that. Is there going to be any fallout about

840
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: the failed re districting. We'll see.

841
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 2: I had Scott Presler on Friday. He's a national voice,

842
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,479
Speaker 2: big Trump guy. He's coming into town. He's talking about

843
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 2: primary and everybody. Well, we will see if people still

844
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 2: care in Indiana. We'll see if the Trump administration even

845
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 2: still cares, or if anybody cares after some other things

846
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 2: have already happened. This is fresh. Let it go by

847
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 2: for a little bit.

848
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,720
Speaker 1: We'll see if anybody even cares. Yeah, so what filing

849
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: I think opens up in pretty much two weeks, right,

850
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: and yeah, we'll see how many challengers. There are two incumbents,

851
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 1: which I like seeing incumbents challenge. Yeah, I mean just

852
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: they should be challenged. I mean, I've always said competition

853
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 1: makes us all stronger. Yep, and yeah, and sometimes it's yeah,

854
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: it's good to have a little competition. Be curious to

855
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: see if the challengers who are pro redistricting have any

856
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: traction and how many of them there are so to

857
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: be determined. My next question for you, will Joe hog

858
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: Set run for re election? Will he adorse someone like

859
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 1: Fop Osley or Ryan Meers.

860
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he's gonna run. I think Ryan

861
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 2: Meers is going to be the guy. I said earlier,

862
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 2: if redistricting would have passed, Andre Carts would have lost

863
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 2: his seat.

864
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: I thought he would have been the guy.

865
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Speaker 2: Since that's now done, Like you said, mirrors just popped

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Speaker 2: up out of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: Now he's started to do media. Oh he's everywhere. He's

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Speaker 1: ramping up now that he knows it's gonna be him. Okay, So,

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Speaker 1: which I think that had they really done redistricting, he

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Speaker 1: would have been eyeing a congressional seat. Yeah, so potentially,

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Speaker 1: or it would have that would have meant that Andre

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Speaker 1: Carson probably would have run from mayor Carson would have

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Speaker 1: came Yeah for me, so interesting, Which that one's still

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Speaker 1: a year out, but I know that people have been

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Speaker 1: jockeying for that for quite some time. Well, you ask

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Speaker 1: who is in more disarray right now? The Republicans are Democrats.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the Democrats live in a state of disarray.

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Speaker 2: But it's wild because as many hats as they have

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Speaker 2: under that tent, whether it's the LGBT, the pro choice,

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Speaker 2: all these different groups, Antifa, they all support. Whenever each

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Speaker 2: other's bill comes up, all of them get behind that

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Speaker 2: same horse.

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Speaker 1: And Conservatives don't do that.

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Speaker 2: We we're independent by nature, so it's hard to find

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Speaker 2: the group think, and I think that causes disarray. That's

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Speaker 2: why we have problems getting things like this past. If

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Speaker 2: this was California, it'd be nine to zero.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So which the Democrats can be wacky unfortunately, I mean, well,

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Speaker 1: and I'm looking I mean the way I look at it,

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Speaker 1: the middle is ripe. Yeah, for somebody who's reasonable. Can

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Speaker 1: the Libertarians be those people? Or they also whacky?

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Speaker 2: I mean they have some good ideas, but then they

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Speaker 2: have some wacky ones too, Right, I think most of

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Speaker 2: us are just left the right of center. Get you

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Speaker 2: and any standard Democrat just talk. You probably disagree on

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Speaker 2: two or three things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So the more I'm around, the more I realize

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Speaker 1: every political party has their crazies and it's just a

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Speaker 1: matter of how crazy are they and how much how

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Speaker 1: much influence do you let them have. Yeah, so I

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Speaker 1: had a great time with you to day, dude, I

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Speaker 1: had an awesome time. Thanks for sitting in. I'm Brad Clofenstein.

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Speaker 1: That's Cherry Lopez. We've been hanging out with you guys

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Speaker 1: all morning. Appreciate it. Coming up after the break, Tony

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Speaker 1: is Tony Cats in today? Do you have any idea

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Speaker 1: Tony Kats is in? Tony Kats is in today, So

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Speaker 1: stay tuned Tony Kats, Cherry, I'll catch you next time.

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Speaker 1: I have a great twenty twenty six.