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Speaker 1: This is the Kendall and Casey Show, ninety three, WYNBC.

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Speaker 1: My name is Craig Collins, filling in a thrilled to

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Speaker 1: be with you. Tony Katz is coming up in about

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Speaker 1: an hour with Tony Katz today. He will be talking

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Speaker 1: about the latest in the Ukraine US meeting that took

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Speaker 1: place in Florida, and a hopeful end of that conflict,

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Speaker 1: that four year war between Russian Ukraine, a bunch of

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Speaker 1: other things. I'm sure he'll talk about too, but I

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Speaker 1: would stay tuned for that. I've mentioned it a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but I'm willing to say that I think Tony does

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Speaker 1: a better job with that topic than I do, probably

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Speaker 1: with a lot of topics than I do. Before I

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Speaker 1: get to more serious stuff, I was talking off air

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Speaker 1: with producer Kylon about the chat now I know on

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Speaker 1: Tony Show. I think he calls them kats kittens as

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Speaker 1: the people who are on the social media chats for

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Speaker 1: the live stream. Does do Kendall and Casey have a

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Speaker 1: nickname for their chat people. I think Kat's Kittens is fine.

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Speaker 1: I think it's funny. I think that Tony by love

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Speaker 1: that you said that the way he did, But I

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Speaker 1: don't know if the Kendall and KC group, if you

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Speaker 1: guys have a nickname, But you were telling me some

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Speaker 1: of the stuff people were saying in the chat about

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Speaker 1: our last topic. We were talking about a few different things,

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Speaker 1: one of them being how you know gas stations used

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Speaker 1: to pump your gas and actually they still do in

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Speaker 1: some places. New Jersey I think still has it by

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Speaker 1: and large, and Mexico still does it all the time.

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Speaker 1: What were people saying about that.

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Speaker 2: They were saying plenty. They were talking about the Texico

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Speaker 2: you can trust your card to the man that wears

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Speaker 2: the star. Yeah, and they were talking about how it

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Speaker 2: only took two dollars in gas for almost to fill

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Speaker 2: up a full tank in the late fifties and early sixties.

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Speaker 3: That sounds lovely.

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Speaker 2: Someone reminisced on when gas hit thirty five cents a

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Speaker 2: gallon there was panic in households.

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Speaker 3: So different now, very different world.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, well, and I think when you used to

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Speaker 1: pull in to the gas station when they had the attendant,

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Speaker 1: like the person did everything, they checked the fluids, they

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Speaker 1: and this still happens in Mexico. I love watching it

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Speaker 1: pull in and the guy he'll do anything you want.

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Speaker 1: I think he'll change your oil for you if you

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Speaker 1: pay him the extra to do that while you're sitting there.

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Speaker 1: Although I think that's probably a service you got a request.

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Speaker 1: They don't do that just anytime you pull in, But

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing, i'd like to see more of that.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to have more attendance to gas stations than

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Speaker 1: you know, human service element, just because it's better than

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Speaker 1: having to get out and do it yourself. But because

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Speaker 1: of that, my wife is always very scared that she's

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Speaker 1: going to do it wrong because she grew up in

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Speaker 1: a place that doesn't do it at all, and every

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Speaker 1: time we go back to her country, they still don't

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Speaker 1: do it. Like I'm getting out of the car when

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Speaker 1: we pull into the gas station and people are looking

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Speaker 1: at me like I'm insane, Like what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: There's somebody who was a job that does this. Was

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Speaker 1: there another topic that they were weighing in on the

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Speaker 1: chat too? Was there something else you wanted to pass on?

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Speaker 2: Was it just that we had talked about how kids

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Speaker 2: can't read clocks these days, yes, and how teachers should

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Speaker 2: take the time to be able to teach those and

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Speaker 2: even reading cursive writing and reading cursive is not hought

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Speaker 3: No, it's not.

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Speaker 2: Although there is a mom that I follow on social

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Speaker 2: media and she started teaching her kid cursive, and the

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Speaker 2: it was teaching it as a code language that not

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Speaker 2: any of your other Oh you write language, yes exactly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, gotcha. That's interesting.

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Speaker 1: You know what's funny about that to me is I

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Speaker 1: still write in cursive when I handwrite anything. And there

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Speaker 1: Like what did you do here? Why did you scribble

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. I write my signature and then sometimes

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Speaker 2: I'll write letters incursive, but it's.

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Speaker 3: How's your signature? Can you read all the letters of

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Speaker 2: No? Let me look over here. I think you can.

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Speaker 2: I don't have two l's in the tally, but I

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Speaker 1: That's at My signature is two giant c's and a

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Speaker 1: And as a little kid who thought at some point

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Speaker 1: my signature was probably going to be important, I had

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Speaker 1: to start practicing this. And so I make the sea

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Speaker 1: for Craig and the sea for Collins as large as

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Speaker 1: I can, and then within each sea I scribbled nonsense,

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Speaker 1: but I do it. I think it's pretty similar all

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Speaker 1: and I'm proud of it. For some rey, I don't

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Speaker 1: know why we're talking about this right now. Almost no

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Speaker 1: one asked me to sign anything in the world in

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Speaker 1: which we live, not even like my check. I don't

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Speaker 1: even think they care about that. They're like, i'll fix it.

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Speaker 1: I'll do it for you. My wife has forged my

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Speaker 1: signature a ton of times on stuff.

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Speaker 3: I'm also going to put that out there. No one

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Speaker 3: go after her.

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Speaker 1: I'm not pressing any charges, but I'm pretty sure that

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Speaker 1: if you looked for a signature of me in society now,

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Speaker 1: more likely it's my wife's version than mine.

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Speaker 3: For things that are signed by me? Did you have

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Speaker 3: it's probably go ahead?

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Speaker 2: Did you ever need to well sign for your parents

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Speaker 2: in school?

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Speaker 3: You mean, did I ever make up a note and

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Speaker 3: have to put their name on it? Is that what

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Speaker 3: you're saying? Did I ever fake a note? I don't know. Oh,

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Speaker 3: I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: The only thing that ever happened to me in school

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Speaker 3: But I don't think we tried to fake notes. What

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Speaker 2: If it were something where it's like, here's my signature

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Speaker 2: I would always call her. I would be sweating bullets

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Speaker 2: I I forgot to have you sign this thing? Can

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Speaker 2: I sign it for you? Are you sure it's okay?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? That's funny.

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Speaker 1: So you did the honest version of forging your parents' signature,

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Speaker 1: not the fake version.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't do the other one.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I got you. That's very sweet, that's very nice.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: I would try to fake sick all the time in school.

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Speaker 1: But I think when I was in school, we didn't

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Speaker 1: I feel sick, and then you got to go home,

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Speaker 1: then you'd go to the school nurse who I don't

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Speaker 1: to go home, and it was great. But I don't

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Speaker 1: think I ever had to sign anything that was a

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Speaker 1: long description of something you didn't ask about, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: Hey, that's okay. What else do we have time for?

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Speaker 3: Fine? Fine, we'll move on. We'll move on to other things.

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Speaker 1: I do love that though, and I love again the

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Speaker 1: and I think she just left on purpose, knowing that

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Speaker 1: We went to church in school and we're told how

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Speaker 1: we were terrible kids. All right, Other things out there,

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Speaker 1: with you. The holidays are happening. A Thursday is a

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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff about Ukraine and awful things, and you're like, man,

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Speaker 1: this is all terrible, This is all stuff I don't

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Speaker 1: want to think about. But we have to, darn it,

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Speaker 1: we have to do it. We have to talk about

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Speaker 1: the serious stuff out there. As far as the meeting

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Speaker 1: from people like Scott Jennings saying that Trump deserves a

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Speaker 1: Nobel Peace Prize in twenty twenty six, the fact that

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Speaker 1: we're this close to peace, and I know Trump when

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Speaker 1: he first took office said he'd end stuff in a

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Speaker 1: day that was obviously illogical and not going to happen,

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Speaker 1: but to end stuff potentially within the first year that

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Speaker 1: he's in this position, and having Biden have failed to

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Speaker 1: prevent it and then failed to end it within the

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Speaker 1: years that it was taking place, well Biden was in office,

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Speaker 1: like this is a remarkable accomplishment, And it's a remarkable

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Speaker 1: accomplishment for one very specific reason is that the United

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Speaker 1: States is now willing, when they weren't before under the

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Speaker 1: previous administration, to tell Ukraine they have to give something up.

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Speaker 1: That is a thing that most of society I didn't

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Speaker 1: want to have happened, or I think some of society

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Speaker 1: didn't want to have happened, because a lot of people

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Speaker 1: rightfully so see Ukraine as the victim here.

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Speaker 3: But the inevitable.

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Speaker 1: Place we'd find, and I thought this from like month

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Speaker 1: two of this conflict, the inevitable place that we'd find

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Speaker 1: But yes, most people apparently don't know how to drive

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Speaker 3: Is this is a very long pause. I think the

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Speaker 3: answer is no, or is it your I would love to.

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Speaker 2: I think i'd be able to with the work that

442
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Speaker 2: I am in. I know during some times, with radio

443
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Speaker 2: being twenty four to seven, you can't always put the

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Speaker 2: phone down.

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Speaker 3: You cannot.

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Speaker 2: Yes, if it's a certain time of year, I'll have

447
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Speaker 2: to plan that out. Yeah, I'll let you know.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I love that.

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Speaker 1: I love that you're saying you can do it, but

450
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Speaker 1: you've obviously never done it before, so it definitely yeah, Okay, yeah,

451
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Speaker 1: I've done it a little bit. I've done it, like

452
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Speaker 1: most of a day where the phone stays in the

453
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Speaker 1: hotel room and you don't really have access to it,

454
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Speaker 1: and it's awesome. Why I tell you it's awesome because

455
00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,960
Speaker 1: if people who care about you know you're on vacation

456
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Speaker 1: and you're not paying attention to like work for a

457
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Speaker 1: few days, then if you don't respond to them, they're

458
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Speaker 1: not offended. Because I think that's the worst thing in

459
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Speaker 1: the society now as far as dis asociating from technology

460
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,040
Speaker 1: for an amount of time is there are people in

461
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Speaker 1: your life who will think that you're ignoring them if

462
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Speaker 1: they don't get a response right away, And that to

463
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Speaker 1: me is so dumb because we used to not be

464
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Speaker 1: a respond right away society. I used to have voice

465
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Speaker 1: machines and everything that people would you know, do And

466
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,520
Speaker 1: so that's the only concern that I ever have the

467
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Speaker 1: longer i'm away from technology is that somebody will send

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Speaker 1: me an email or text or something and then I

469
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Speaker 1: don't respond, and then they think I'm a big jerk.

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Speaker 1: This actually happened on Christmas. I'll tell you that on

471
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Speaker 1: Christmas Day, I didn't have anything to do, so I

472
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Speaker 1: left my phone in my car at the place we

473
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Speaker 1: were at and didn't get it till that night, and

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Speaker 1: I had text from people Merry Christmas and stuff, and

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Speaker 1: I didn't respond at night because it was too late.

476
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Speaker 1: So I responded the next day and a couple of

477
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Speaker 1: my friends were like, finally, what.

478
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Speaker 3: Took you so long? And I was like, I'm sorry, dude.

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Speaker 1: I really apologized for not saying Merry Christmas yesterday, but

480
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Speaker 1: I wasn't paying attention to my phone at all. And

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Speaker 1: it was lovely. It was not lovely to get in

482
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Speaker 1: the fight with the friends. It was lovely to not

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Speaker 1: care about it for twenty four hours.

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Speaker 3: That was great.

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Speaker 1: I highly highly recommend it, and I think I've joked before.

486
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's on this show, but other

487
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Speaker 1: places that we should do one day where the entire

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Speaker 1: world goes technology free. We all show up at a

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Speaker 1: park together, somebody brings a frisbee or a Hackey sack,

490
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Speaker 1: and we just see what happens. I feel like that's

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Speaker 1: a scenario that I would really enjoy no technology day,

492
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Speaker 1: and we see how many of us wind up, you know,

493
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Speaker 1: doing things, maybe go to putt putt or go bowling

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Speaker 1: as a group as a society and see how that goes.

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Speaker 2: I think it would be right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it would be healing and also hilarious

497
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Speaker 1: for me again to feel everybody at the same time

498
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Speaker 1: show up at the park together with a bunch of

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Speaker 1: Hackey sacks, because it's going to be a fun day,

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Speaker 1: but it's going to be annoying, right, quick break a

501
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Speaker 1: lot more. Craig Collins filling in on Kendall and Casey

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Speaker 1: ninety three WIBC, Tony Cats The Morning News ninety three WIBC.

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Speaker 1: My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be

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Speaker 1: with you. Wait a minute, I did that wrong. It's

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Speaker 1: not Tony Casts. This is Kendall and Casey.

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Speaker 3: Oh man.

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Speaker 1: I was telling myself all day I wasn't going to

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Speaker 1: do that, and I did it because I'm so used

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Speaker 1: to one working with Kylon on the other show, and

510
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Speaker 1: two filling in on the other show. So it is,

511
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Speaker 1: you know, twelve thirty or eleven thirty in the afternoon here.

512
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Speaker 1: It is definitely not The Morning News anymore.

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Speaker 3: My fault tall involved.

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Speaker 1: I apologize to Kendall, Casey, Tony, anybody. This is the

515
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Speaker 1: Kendall and Casey Show. Rob Kendall Casey, Daniel. It is

516
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Speaker 1: definitely not the other thing, and I'm an idiot and

517
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Speaker 1: blame me. I hate doing that as a radio guy too,

518
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,680
Speaker 1: because it does annoy not that I think it'll annoy

519
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Speaker 1: kendle In Casey, but it does annoy me when somebody

520
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Speaker 1: doesn't say my name when they're filling in on my show.

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Speaker 1: So I apologize again. All right, anyway, let's do some

522
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Speaker 1: quick stuff. This is interesting to me. China had its

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Speaker 1: largest war games like demonstration of how it could quickly

524
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Speaker 1: surround Taiwan. They did this earlier today Monday for them, actually,

525
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Speaker 1: so it was probably still Sunday night for us. This

526
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Speaker 1: is a demonstration of just how quickly Beijing could decide

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Speaker 1: that it's sober between them and Taiwan and essentially cut

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Speaker 1: them off from the rest of the world. This is

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Speaker 1: something that Taiwan will have to choose how, if at

530
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Speaker 1: all it tries to respond to something like this, it's

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Speaker 1: going to do basically nothing like That's the part.

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Speaker 3: It was a war game.

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Speaker 1: It was a thing that wasn't you know, real, but

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Speaker 1: it was a demonstration of strength. And you might ask

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Speaker 1: yourself why this happened right now, and I have a theory.

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Speaker 1: I believe that this is one hundred percent tied to

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Speaker 1: the US and Venezuela. A whole lot of people are

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Speaker 1: out there are saying that the US is doing what

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Speaker 1: they did with you know, Iraq, with any other sort

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Speaker 1: of country in which they're very oil rich, and that

541
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Speaker 1: the whole fight is just about oil, that the United

542
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Speaker 1: States is essentially trying to gain an advantage by going

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Speaker 1: after Venezuela and somehow getting control of the vast oil

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Speaker 1: reserves that exist in that country.

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Speaker 3: That is idiotic. And I'll tell you why.

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Speaker 1: The reason it's idiotic is right now, if the United

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Speaker 1: States wanted to disrupt oil trade between Venezuela, China, and Russia,

548
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Speaker 1: we could do something easier. We could buy it, and

549
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Speaker 1: we could buy it cheaper than the amount of money

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Speaker 1: we're gonna use in what we've been doing to try

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Speaker 1: to demonstrate our own military strength to a country that

552
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Speaker 1: does hurt us. They hurt us through the drugs that

553
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Speaker 1: move from that country into our country, whether it's ventanyl

554
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Speaker 1: or cocaine or whatever you want to call it. I

555
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Speaker 1: know a lot of people on the left say it's

556
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Speaker 1: not fentanyl. I don't care what drug it is if

557
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Speaker 1: it's a drug that's hurting our society, that's bad. And

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Speaker 1: also a lot of drugs that go through Venezuela wind

559
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Speaker 1: up either you know, touching the United States and then

560
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Speaker 1: going elsewhere.

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Speaker 3: YadA, YadA, YadA.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of ways where that industry is uniquely

563
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Speaker 1: bad for us and for the world, So fighting it

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Speaker 1: is not not a bad thing. I think it's sort

565
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Speaker 1: of ridiculous that people out there say that the United

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Speaker 1: States blowing up drug boats is the same as like,

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Speaker 1: you know, attacking people who are just innocently fishing. Because

568
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Speaker 1: drug boats and the drug trade is bad for society

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Speaker 1: as a whole, it's bad for society beyond our own country.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know why that is as controversial as

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Speaker 1: people making it. It's sort of ridiculous, And there was

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Speaker 1: a war on drugs at one point that feels like

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Speaker 1: we should be having it again based on some of

574
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Speaker 1: the bad things that happen. But if you go beyond that,

575
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Speaker 1: the other big thing that matters between the United States

576
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Speaker 1: and Venezuela is the way that Venezuela is used by

577
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Speaker 1: Russia and China and other countries that we don't always

578
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Speaker 1: get along with to circumvent any of the paper attacks.

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Speaker 1: That's what I like to call them, paper tiger, whatever

580
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Speaker 1: you want it to be, the attempts financially to disrupt

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Speaker 1: these countries like Russia. When Biden said that sanctions were

582
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Speaker 1: going to be the avenue to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine,

583
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Speaker 1: he was being an idiot, and he obviously didn't think

584
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Speaker 1: he was a moron, but I don't even think he

585
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Speaker 1: understood if he was all there at that point or

586
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Speaker 1: any point, so who knows. But nonetheless, like that wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to work. And one of the big reasons that

588
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Speaker 1: sanctions are so much less effective than they used to

589
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Speaker 1: be at some point on places like Russia and China

590
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Speaker 1: is because of countries like Venezuela and the way that

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Speaker 1: they prop up trade. The biggest trade partners of Venezuela,

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Speaker 1: unsurprising Russia and China. The biggest way in which oil

593
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Speaker 1: is you know, passed along between those countries, even though

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Speaker 1: Russia is oil rich itself through Venezuela. So it's just

595
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Speaker 1: it's amazing to see people miss the actual target, not

596
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,880
Speaker 1: that they don't miss targets all the time, especially mainstream media.

597
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Speaker 1: People missing targets on what's actually going on the United

598
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Speaker 1: States is trying to find a way to have true

599
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Speaker 1: influence over the countries that it doesn't you know, get

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Speaker 1: along with often. Again, as I said, and this is

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Speaker 1: the latest example of a reason that's important if China

602
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Speaker 1: at some point actually does take provocative military action on Taiwan,

603
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Speaker 1: and the United States is thrust into a world where

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Speaker 1: we want to help defend Taiwan and whatever that looks like,

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Speaker 1: we will hope, we will pray that we have a

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Speaker 1: capability of influencing China, not that it would really work,

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Speaker 1: just with the help of Venezuela through preventing some of

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Speaker 1: those mechanisms that allow in a want of me to

609
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Speaker 1: stay you know, in place, even after the United States

610
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,199
Speaker 1: makes it harder to do trade with US, harder to

611
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Speaker 1: do business with us, and harder to do business with

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Speaker 1: a lot of our friends throughout the world. So I

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Speaker 1: just think this is so interesting or so important in

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Speaker 1: the grand scheme of what's going on. And the reason

615
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: why one you know, action is being taken over here

616
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,959
Speaker 1: is because of an action that's happening over here, and

617
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: people buy and larger disregarding it. But I can say

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Speaker 1: it more simplistically of Venezuela is a place that's run

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Speaker 1: by a horrible dictator. Most of the country is poor

620
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Speaker 1: and you know, struggling to survive. That is not untrue.

621
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Speaker 1: A ton of corruption exists, a ton of horrible things

622
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 1: like drug trade and whatnot run rampant in places like that.

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Speaker 1: Terrorist organizations operate there. Like you can go down the

624
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Speaker 1: list of all these things that are absolutely true about

625
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Speaker 1: how bad life has gotten in that part of the

626
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: world that is very close to us, and how much

627
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: people that are further away from us, powers that we

628
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: conflict with want to use it to get close. It's

629
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Speaker 1: the same same thing in a way, and this is

630
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Speaker 1: definitely not a good comparison, but I'll make it for

631
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: the sake of hopefully helping you understand the point I'm

632
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: trying to make here. The United States has a strategic

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Speaker 1: partnership with Israel, by and large partially because no one

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Speaker 1: else in that area is our friend or Israel's friend,

635
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: and it's very important for both of us that we

636
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: have a friend in that area, and that Israel has

637
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Speaker 1: someone that helps them defend themselves from everybody else that

638
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: surrounds them. In a way, again, not at all the

639
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: same thing very very different circumstances as far as the

640
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: life and quality of life within the country. Israel is

641
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: not horrible to its people by the way that Venezuela is.

642
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: But Venezuela is trying to be used by Russia and

643
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: China to get access closely to us, to harm us

644
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: in a way. So you can really think of it

645
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: in those terms that this strategic partnership, regardless of the

646
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: behavior of Venezuela, is much more important to places like

647
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Speaker 1: Russia and China, and because of that, we need to

648
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Speaker 1: actually stop something. And the nice thing, this is a

649
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: weird way to say it, the nice thing about this

650
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,719
Speaker 1: circumstance is we'd actually be helping the people in Venezuela

651
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Speaker 1: and whatever we do. And I'm not advocating that we

652
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Speaker 1: necessarily start a war. I know a lot of people

653
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: are expecting that to be the outcome of all of this.

654
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Speaker 1: I think, truly the biggest thing we want to do

655
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Speaker 1: is disrupt the oil trade. That we want to take

656
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Speaker 1: as much control of that as possible, because it is

657
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Speaker 1: truthfully the biggest thing hurting us beyond it's not to

658
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: get the oil. It's so overly simplistic when people say

659
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: it that way, it's to do something very very different

660
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: than just get more product here in the United States

661
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: and try to drive the cost of oil down even more.

662
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: Like that's silly, that's to me dumb in twenty twenty

663
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: five to be the only reason we would do something,

664
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: but none the last. The reason I talk about this,

665
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 1: the reason I mention all this is because of the

666
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: news out of China and the way in which they're

667
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: demonstrating their potential ability to harm Taiwan, to encircle Taiwan.

668
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: All of that is because of of what Trump is

669
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: doing with Venezuela, and both of those sides know it.

670
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: The rest of our society doesn't seem to understand it,

671
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: but a whole lot of people do. And I think

672
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: that it's actually a good thing if we continue to

673
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: behave the way we're behaving, because that actually gets to

674
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: the heart of the problem. Just sanctions and all that

675
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: stuff is never going to work, and actually allowing Russia,

676
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: not allowing forcing Russia, is the right term to play ball,

677
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 1: and to actually live up to any sort of peace

678
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: agreement with Ukraine. There will need to be a strength

679
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: component for the United States that we didn't have before,

680
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: and that component of strength may very well come through

681
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: changing the leadership in Venezuela, changing everything there to make

682
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: it a country that does more to benefit us and

683
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: does less to benefit our enemies. That is inevitably the

684
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: plan at the end of the day for all that,

685
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: and I think that that's vitally important to not only

686
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: the immediate safety of our country, but the long term

687
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: safety of a lot of the places that we're trying

688
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: to help and defend. All right, on that note, we'll

689
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: take a quick break, we'll come back, we'll do a

690
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: little bit extra silly stuff. I do want to revisit

691
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: a motorcycle topic. I just found out that producer Kylin

692
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: is a motorcycle person. I am a motorcycle person, so

693
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: that's great. And Matt Behar, who's not with us, Matt

694
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: Bear does traffic in the morning and in the afternoon

695
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: but not hanging out right now, has heard this story

696
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: enough times that Matt will be happy he's not on

697
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: the show. I will talk about the motorcycle accent I

698
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,959
Speaker 1: got in in college and how I'm Spider Man. That's

699
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: essentially the end of the story, so that coming up

700
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: in more in just a bit. Craig Collins filling in

701
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: on the Kendall and Casey Show, not Tony Kats in

702
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: the Morning News ninety three WIBC. This is the Kendall

703
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: and case Show, ninety three WIBC. My name is Craig Collins,

704
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: filling in producer. Kylan is hanging out on special assignment

705
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: over the holidays. We wind up working together a lot

706
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: over the holidays. Kylind and I and I just found out,

707
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: and she just found out that we both own motorcycles,

708
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: which is something that had never come up off the

709
00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 1: air before. And motorcycles are great, They're wonderful vehicles. I

710
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: once gotten an accident in mine, though, and my wife

711
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: very much tried to prevent me from ever getting another

712
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: one for quite a long time. And I listened for

713
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: a long time because you know, happy wife, happy life.

714
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you that the motorcycle accident that happened

715
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: convinced me that I'm indestructible. And that's probably a terrible thing,

716
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: but it did. So I'm going to tell the story

717
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: here quickly on the air. A Kylon can weigh in

718
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: as someone who owns bikes as well, but this very quickly,

719
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: and I've told this story on a Matt and Craig

720
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: excellent podcast, more than once, I think, and probably not

721
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: good that I've told it more than once, but darn it,

722
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: I don't care. Spider Man is the end of the story,

723
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: so you can hear it there too, and hear Matt's

724
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: react and do it too there if you want to

725
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: hear how Matt Bear reacts to this story. But I

726
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: was driving my motorcycle in Chicago, where I lived for

727
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: a very long time.

728
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 3: I was going to work. I went through a red light.

729
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: You know, it had obviously been green when I went

730
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: through it, and then it turned red, and then I

731
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: stopped because the person in front of me was turning

732
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: into an apartment complex. And then all of a sudden,

733
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: in my rear view, I look down and I see

734
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: a car barely toward the light that definitely is going

735
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: to run the red and is definitely going to hit me,

736
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: like they're going to do two terrible things at once,

737
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: and it's going to be bad. And the car in

738
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: front of me, thankfully, was turning out of the way,

739
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: so I wasn't gonna, you know, get hit from one

740
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: vehicle into another vehicle.

741
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 3: So here's what I did.

742
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: I looked down and I simply just pushed up off

743
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: of my motorcycle pegs. Right as the car hit me,

744
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: I floated in the air like a superhero. The bike

745
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: went out from under me, spun destroyed, said, and I

746
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: feel like I could watch it in slow motion, I

747
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: getting destroyed it. I was floating in the air, but

748
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: I think the way the car impacted me and the bike,

749
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: it just catapulted me upward and then I landed on

750
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: my feet. And then I turned around, and as I

751
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: turned around, the car that hit me was screeching to

752
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: a stop right in front of me without hitting me.

753
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: And then two young women popped out of the car.

754
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: They were attractive. That's not important, but it's part of

755
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: the story. And they kept apologizing to me and telling

756
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: me there were reasons that they made some horrible decisions

757
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: and you know whatnot and I inevitably just took their

758
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: insurance information and wound up adding a new bike because

759
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: of the payment on it.

760
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 3: But I survived.

761
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: The most important part is that I survived without a scratch.

762
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: And so from that moment on, my wife said it

763
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,720
Speaker 1: was a miracle and I should never drive a motorcycle again,

764
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: and I said, it was a demonstration of the superpower

765
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: that lies within me, and I should have motorcycles for

766
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: the rest of my life because I'm unkillable. I'm not

767
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: sure what side of the argument Kylon will land on,

768
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: or anyone out there will. I assume most people will

769
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: land on the side my wife is on. But come on,

770
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: I flew through the air and landed on my feet

771
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: like a gosh darn you know, superhero, I deserve to

772
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: have a motorcycle forever.

773
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 3: You.

774
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,919
Speaker 2: I always advocate for safeties. You should always wear a helmet.

775
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 2: You should always try and be safe. Don't be riding

776
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 2: in crazy awful conditions. But correct you survived and thrived

777
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 2: the fact that you're a superman. Like, yes, absolutely, I

778
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 2: would get another motorcycle.

779
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 3: Did you see that? Yeah? In real life?

780
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: When I landed on my feet and the car kind

781
00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: of screeched to a halt in front of me, it

782
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 1: felt like a movie for a sell like it really

783
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: felt like I lived out a scene that you would

784
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: have to rehearse to make it happen that way. And

785
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 1: when the two twenty something girls popped out of the car,

786
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: I was in my twenties two at the time, by

787
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: the way, and they ran up to me and were apologizing,

788
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: Like immediately, I kind of felt proud that I had

789
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: just shown off by accident in front of these people.

790
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: I was married at the time, so no, you know,

791
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: flirting of any kind occurred, but just the fact that

792
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: I was amazing in front of people to me was

793
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: enough of a thing as a reward that goes. And

794
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 1: they did give me insurance information and they did take

795
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: responsibility for the crash all that happened. So I got

796
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: a replacement. But I think I'm unkillable. I know I can't.

797
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that. That's a horrible thing how to

798
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: put out there into the world. But in that moment,

799
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: I definitely felt invincible. And so I've told this story

800
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: time and again as an example of how I should absolutely,

801
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 1: as I said, never give up motorcycles. The missus tells

802
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: it as the lucky moment that I needed to learn

803
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: the lesson from.

804
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 2: I don't think we should be testing the killable theory personally,

805
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:02,439
Speaker 2: but the one off is great.

806
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 3: Let's take it. I beg, beg you. Yeah. Yeah.

807
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: She still believes, unfortunately more than she should. Although men

808
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: do like to be impressive around well like we like

809
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: to show off around the ladies, she does believe a

810
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: portion of it that made me so confident is the

811
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: fact that the people who are driving the other vehicle

812
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: were young women and not like, you know, older dudes

813
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: or something. I don't think that's true, though. I think

814
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: I would have been just as proud in any scenario

815
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: with anybody. I don't think that's the motivating factor at

816
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: all here, but it has been part of the argument

817
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: from time time.

818
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:33,919
Speaker 3: So I like that too. I love that too.

819
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: But at least, Kylon, you can understand how odd of

820
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: a decision I made to just push up on my

821
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: pegs and how that essentially saved my life. So really, truthfully,

822
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: this is all about how great I am and nothing else,

823
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: all right, other things out there quickly before we get

824
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: out of here. Stores are horrible right now if you're

825
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: going to stores, most likely because a whole bunch of

826
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: people are returning stuff. My wife and I didn't return anything,

827
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: but we did go to a box store over the weekend,

828
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: and the line for returning stuff was crazy, which I

829
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 1: find interesting because I do think a lot of people

830
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: are getting their gifts online and you know, giving their

831
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: gifts to other people. But by and large, a lot

832
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: of these box store places to get people into the

833
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: store are allowing for like an Amazon return to be

834
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 1: done at their location instead of you know, putting it

835
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: back in the mail and stuff. So this seems to

836
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,439
Speaker 1: be the best time of the year for the box

837
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: stores to have people in them because they're returning items

838
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: from other stores, which is just weird. I just kept

839
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: thinking about how odd that is, but how it's essentially

840
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: probably working because you get the little cupon after that,

841
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: I saw everybody was getting for some amount of stuff off.

842
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 3: Yep, okay, you were saying yes to this.

843
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I imagine there's a lot of shopping that's happening

844
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,479
Speaker 1: at the you know, May season and the other types

845
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: of places like that of the world that are doing

846
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:49,240
Speaker 1: these returns.

847
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 2: A couple thoughts, because they have an estimated value of

848
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 2: eight hundred and fifty billion dollars being returned at this

849
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 2: time after the whizz it's crazy. Yes, it is billions

850
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 2: of dollars. But some stores are now charging return fees

851
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 2: if you guys are bringing stuff back, like Macy's, Teachings,

852
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 2: Best Buy. Some of them even charging up to forty

853
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 2: five dollars if you're returning things because of how much

854
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 2: it's just returned every year.

855
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's crazy.

856
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: It makes you almost think that you should just be

857
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: getting gift cards for people at this point, Like, really,

858
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: what are we doing If I'm going to buy you

859
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: something and you like it, but you're gonna like something

860
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: else more, why don't I just give you money or

861
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: a version of money at a certain place. I like

862
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: the gift card move too, because it shows that I've

863
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: thought out a little bit of what you're going to get,

864
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: Like I've contemplated the category of stuff that I'm getting

865
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 1: you when you go shop for yourself, and I'm not

866
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: just giving you money, and then you decide what to

867
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,240
Speaker 1: do with that. My mother gives people Amazon gift cards

868
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: for Christmas. She sent me one and we actually use

869
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: it to buy food at Whole Foods, which.

870
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 3: You can do.

871
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: You can order the food on Amazon or on the

872
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: Whole Foods website, go pick it up in the store,

873
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: and use the amaz On gift card to do it.

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00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: So I love that it's my favorite, and it's my

875
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: wife's favorite. Get the fancy groceries for the Christmas thing.

876
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: But I love the fact that, like whatever category of

877
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: gift card you choose, I've demonstrated some amount of thought.

878
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 3: I've given you a gift that wasn't just money. So

879
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 3: there you go.

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Speaker 1: I've somehow decided, you know, on the kind of although

881
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: with Amazon it's literally anything I really that I could

882
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: get with that. But I like that, So maybe we

883
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: should all do that and not buy stuff, buy real

884
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: stuff for each other.

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00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 2: Hey, while you're at those stores, you might as well

886
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 2: check out that Christmas clearance fifty to seventy percent off.

887
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:34,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at that. We only have one.

888
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 2: Hundred and sixty two more days till Christmas. You might

889
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 2: as well stock up.

890
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.

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00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: You know what's funny about that too, is yes, at

892
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: the front of I think it was a TJ Max

893
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: that I was in yesterday with the misses because she

894
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: wants to go there just to be there.

895
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 3: What is it with women in TJ Max?

896
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:49,919
Speaker 1: Can you explain that to me in one minute before

897
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: we take a break and I'm done for the whole day.

898
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 3: You like the TJ maxing? You need?

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00:39:54,400 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 2: Okay, clothes, kitchen store, jewelry, jewelry, shoes, and cheese, absolutely

900
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Speaker 2: everything you need.

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00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: That's okay, okay, you know what TJ Max needs. I

902
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: feel like I've talked about this before, but I'll talk

903
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: about it again. A tool section in the back, just one,

904
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Speaker 1: one aisle of so that I can go there with

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Speaker 1: all the other guys who are stuck at the TJ

906
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: Max and stand in the tool aisle until we're allowed

907
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Speaker 1: to leave, because that would be great. I go shopping

908
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: with the message, he tries on closing things, and I

909
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: just have to stand there in the TJ Max.

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00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 3: Still it's over.

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00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: Give me one aisle of power tools and that would

912
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: be great. All right, we're out of here, we're done,

913
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Speaker 1: no time left. I doubt TJ Max was listening. But

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Speaker 1: that'll change the world if you make that out of reality.

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Speaker 1: Craig Collins filling in Kylon hanging out on Kendall and

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Speaker 1: Casey ninety three WIBC