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Speaker 1: Maryland for Johnny Canna Memorial Day. The United States dangerously

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Speaker 1: close to defaulting on obligations called the debt ceiling. Of course,

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Speaker 1: How in the world do we get to the precipice

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Speaker 1: We're so lucky to have Congress, so fortunate that they

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Speaker 1: you're spending too much money as a nation. We're spending

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Speaker 1: too much money. We shouldn't have thirty one and a

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Speaker 1: it's ridoculous. The Democrats, they say, Okay, we hear you,

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Speaker 1: Thank goodness. So here comes the cavalry. What is in

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Speaker 1: Boy, you want to talk about politics? Do you want

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Speaker 1: to talk about just just shameless back and forth word games.

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Speaker 1: That's what we've got here. We've got absolute the Republicans

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Speaker 1: And the Democrats go, okay, well let's cut some military funding.

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Speaker 1: No? And then the the Republicans say, well, what if

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Speaker 1: just eliminated the debt ceiling. This is from CBS Morning

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Speaker 1: Scott MacFarlane reporting this morning.

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Speaker 2: Through a weekend of high stakes negotiations, President Biden and

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Speaker 2: the Republican House Speakers say they're confident they've broke her

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Speaker 1: It takes the threat of catastrophic to fall off the table, protects.

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Speaker 4: Our hard earned in historic economic recovery, and the agreement

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Speaker 2: And that it will satisfy enough members of Congress to

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Speaker 1: It doesn't get everything everybody wanted.

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Speaker 2: But that's in divided government, that's where we end up.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna get everything they want. You know who's opposing

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Speaker 1: And yet that's a dirty word in politics right now.

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Speaker 1: But what are the consequences of not doing it? A disaster?

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Speaker 2: The deal prevents constus social Actually.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens. All the all the members of Congress

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Speaker 2: The deal prevents cuts to Social Security and medicare, as

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Speaker 2: Ten billion dollars in both fiscal years twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: Ten billion dollars a year from the IRS. Yes, Oh

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Speaker 2: And it takes back the unspent money from COVID relief funds.

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Speaker 1: the door to this. Well it see, it's just all

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Speaker 2: Group of Republicans in the Conservative Freedom cauc Is say

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Speaker 2: Congressman Ralph Norman tweeted the deal was insanity, while his

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry he did. He called it a what's it was? What? Well?

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Speaker 2: His colleague Chip Roy colorfully called it a turd sandwich.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just gonna highlight that and then I'm just

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Speaker 2: Tird sandandwich.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. How do you feel about that debt deal?

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Speaker 2: Turd sandwich?

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Speaker 1: Miami heat and the playoffs?

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Speaker 2: Turd sandwich?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? What'd you think about the Lakers performance against the Nuggets?

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Speaker 2: Turd sandwich?

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Speaker 1: Fantastic? Hey, we're grilling for Memorial Day.

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Speaker 2: What would you like turd sandwich?

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Speaker 1: All right? All right? Continue? What else? The how else

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Speaker 2: Opposition on both sides gives the deal a narrow path

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Speaker 5: Speaker Kevin McCarthy. He wrote an op ed for the

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Speaker 5: Wall Street Journal. In the US Senate, there is also

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Speaker 1: Tony, Yeah, they could vote by Friday or by the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Remember the original deadline was Thursday, and then Janet Yellen

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Speaker 5: To believe the congressman there called it a quote turd sandwich,

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Speaker 1: That's disgusting. I do not care for your schatological humor, CBS.

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Speaker 1: Was taking a look at people going back to work.

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Speaker 1: Pandemic presented a major shift for office workers required to

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Speaker 1: work from home nationwide city shutdown. Since then, many employers

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Speaker 1: have introduced more flexible working arrangements, but service workers, many

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Speaker 1: of whom were on the front lines during the height

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Speaker 1: of the pandemic. Remember essential workers. Yeah, you're an essential worker,

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Speaker 1: but I take cash at the drive through at Arby's.

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Speaker 1: That's essential. You better get to work. The service workers

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Speaker 1: said that they've been left behind. Now I talk about

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Speaker 1: things like fast food workers, but we're also talking about

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Speaker 1: er nurses and nurses in general, r nurses, OAR nurses,

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Speaker 1: recovering nurses, all this ice you. We might be talking

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Speaker 1: about people at work in rescue fields some of these

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Speaker 1: other places where you have to be on the job right.

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Speaker 1: There's no getting around it, and especially when you think

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Speaker 1: about those in the medical profession, all the different arguments.

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Speaker 1: Everybody wanted to be a TikTok star by arguing about

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Speaker 1: a mask. I'm not wearing my mask in your host

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Speaker 1: but oh oh I'm filming this. I'm going to be viral.

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Speaker 1: You are going to be viral on this. Put the

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Speaker 1: mask on. Staffing shortages, burn out, low pay and little

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Speaker 1: to no benefits and unpredictable schedules are magnified by the

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Speaker 1: emotional exhaustion some feel from risking their lives during the

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Speaker 1: dangerous days of the pandemic. So the other problem that

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Speaker 1: they have is that people decided to forget it. I'm out,

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Speaker 1: that's it not dealing with it anymore, ski daddling. I

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Speaker 1: don't blame them. I don't blame them. As I'm getting older,

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Speaker 1: I realized that my tolerance for bs drops significantly when

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Speaker 1: I was in my twenties. You know, maybe I'd put

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Speaker 1: up with something, maybe I didn't know better, Maybe I

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Speaker 1: had to stamina a little more. I felt like I

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Speaker 1: was paying my dues, earning my experience these sorts of things.

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Speaker 1: Is I'm getting older, I just go, ah, don't with

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Speaker 1: this crap anymore. So perhaps we're at a stage where

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Speaker 1: people are getting older and they're going, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to deal with unruly customers any longer. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to deal with feeling overworked and underpaid. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to deal with the garbage any longer. And so more

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Speaker 1: and more people are feeling unsatisfied, and this could end

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Speaker 1: up putting a more of a squeeze on the economy.

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Speaker 1: A growing worker movement continues to expand. Three years after

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Speaker 1: the outbreak of the pandemic, we're already starting to see unionizing.

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Speaker 1: We're starting to see unions that are in place that

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Speaker 1: are saying, nope, we got to change some things up.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that it's necessarily the pandemic that is

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Speaker 1: driving the writer's strike right now, but certainly some of

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Speaker 1: the changes that we've seen since the pandemic, including an

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Speaker 1: exacerbated emphasis on streaming services and how streamers are really

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Speaker 1: the go to now that's part of the reason that

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Speaker 1: the writers are stress. They're like, no, the streamers are

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Speaker 1: just not the deal from the streamer sucks, and so

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Speaker 1: they're saying we're not. We got to change things up.

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Speaker 1: What's interesting is I mentioned being younger. Study was out

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Speaker 1: asking what gen Z wants, and every generation, every single one,

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Speaker 1: you can go back and look in history, every single

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Speaker 1: generation believes that the next generation is lazy. I'll say,

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Speaker 1: nobody wants to work these days, the kids these days.

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Speaker 1: It's always been a joke. If you're a gen xer,

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Speaker 1: you were the butt of the jokes in the eighties.

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Speaker 1: I was there. I remember, Oh gen xers, they don't

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Speaker 1: want to work. Oh gen xer is this gen Xer?

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Speaker 1: Is that? Oh baby boomers, all those potheads. All they

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Speaker 1: want to do is protest. They don't love America. They

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Speaker 1: don't even know how to work anymore. They parents are

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Speaker 1: paying for their college. They all have to go to college.

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Speaker 1: Nowadays baby boomers and titled snots, and now millennials are

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Speaker 1: talking trash on gen Z. I love that. Millennials have

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Speaker 1: been the butt of joke for alast fifteen years. Now

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Speaker 1: they're like, oh but gen Z, Oh these I don't

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Speaker 1: want to work, I don't want to do anything. What's

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Speaker 1: interesting is to find out what gen Z wants, including

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Speaker 1: an interesting take that to voxhead is it talked about

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Speaker 1: Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Seeing huge jumps in search interest

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Speaker 1: by gen Z recent college grads, not a single tech

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Speaker 1: company made it into the top ten of recruiting. When

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Speaker 1: it came to applying for work, there was a huge

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Speaker 1: growth in the number of applications to jobs in government,

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Speaker 1: law and politics, energy, and any industry that isn't tech.

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Speaker 1: They say it likely reflects the overall twenty four percent

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Speaker 1: growth in full time applications this year. Students struggle with

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Speaker 1: a rougher job market than last year. It's still a

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Speaker 1: tight job market, but rougher than it was. So why

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Speaker 1: does gen Z want to work for defense contractors of

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Speaker 1: the government. I thought all the kids these days, they

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Speaker 1: don't love their country. The kids these days, they just

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Speaker 1: think they're all so idealistic. According to what Vox is saying,

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Speaker 1: they don't have the same associations with millennials who witnessed

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Speaker 1: and protested the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they

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Speaker 1: have been exposed to lots of other chaos in their

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Speaker 1: young lives. Now they crave stability. They look at the

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Speaker 1: tech jobs, They look at Silicon Valley and some of

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Speaker 1: these tech jobs, and they go, look, it's just it's

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Speaker 1: a madhouse. Look, I'm a coder. I know how to code.

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Speaker 1: I can do great coding. I don't want to work

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Speaker 1: for Twitter. Twitter might not be around tomorrow. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to work for Facebook. I don't want to work

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Speaker 1: for Google. Say well, what about this Lockheed Martin. I

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Speaker 1: can code for them. I can go get a tech

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Speaker 1: job with one of these guys, and Lockheed Martin's going

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Speaker 1: to be around for forever. Some see that stability and

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Speaker 1: defense jobs, as well as more tried and true industries Chevron, Boeing,

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Speaker 1: Bank of America, and NASA topping the list. As far

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Speaker 1: as growth in interest, it seems that gen Z sort

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Speaker 1: of is reverting back to the mindset that previous generations

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Speaker 1: have had, whereas maybe gen X and millennials were being idealistic.

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Speaker 1: Gen Z says, I gotta have a steady paycheck. I

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Speaker 1: gotta make sure that I can afford a house for

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Speaker 1: Pete's sake. He can't afford to pay off student loans.

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Speaker 1: I can't afford to buy a house. I gotta have

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Speaker 1: something that's gonna be there tomorrow, so at least I

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Speaker 1: can put together a budget and a plan. But the

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Speaker 1: real job that you want, the real gig, is this.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those barely show jobs. Again. Vox was

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Speaker 1: talking about the people who barely show up. They highlighted

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Speaker 1: a guy by the name of Nate, who works forty

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Speaker 1: hours a week in operations at a major fintech company,

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Speaker 1: Financial Tech. In reality, Nate works just one hour a

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Speaker 1: day at most. He moses over to his computer whenever

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Speaker 1: he gets an alert on his phone that he's got

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Speaker 1: a task to complete. Otherwise, he spends most of the

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Speaker 1: day doing whatever he feels, sleeping in watching TV household shores.

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Speaker 1: His only restriction is he can't go too far from home,

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Speaker 1: just in case somebody needs something. The jobless employed are

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Speaker 1: a persistent presence in the working world. Their existence is

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Speaker 1: a bug that's become a feature, and there's a percentage

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Speaker 1: of every job that is bunk, but in their case

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Speaker 1: it's ninety percent minimum. This is why so many employers

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Speaker 1: want employees to come back to the office, because they

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Speaker 1: don't want to be paying for somebody to do their laundry.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, that people that are doing these

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Speaker 1: almost no show jobs, they could do more, they might

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Speaker 1: even want to do more, but they're afraid of raising

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Speaker 1: a red flag and what they've not been doing all along. Man,

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Speaker 1: that's the gig, that's the way to do it right there.

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Speaker 1: If you can grab one of those, do it, you

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Speaker 1: will be much happier. And oddly enough, it tends to

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Speaker 1: be the jobs that pay more that offer those sorts

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Speaker 1: of weird loopholes in the work environment. I suppose if

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Speaker 1: you're getting paid more and you're doing less, ultimately you

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Speaker 1: could end up being a happier individual, financially sound, more

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Speaker 1: free work life balance as it were. Where does California stand.

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Speaker 1: Do you suppose when it comes to the happiest places

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Speaker 1: to live? Well, great news, I've got that answer. It's

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Speaker 1: next Chris Merril And for John and Kim k I

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Speaker 1: am six forty. We're live everywhere on your heart radio app.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from kf

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Speaker 3: I AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: I know it's a little may Gray and then you know,

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Speaker 1: followed by June Gloom. I know we got cloudy skies.

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Speaker 1: I know some of the beaches are closed because there's

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Speaker 1: crap in the water, that sort of thing. And I know,

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Speaker 1: even if the beaches are open, you can go into

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Speaker 1: the beaches and then be eaten by a shark. I

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Speaker 1: get it. And I know that you're getting back from

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Speaker 1: your your three day weekend and coming back to traffic,

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Speaker 1: and traffic it sucks. I get it. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: at least you had some place to go. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: consider you live in a different place and you're getting

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Speaker 1: ready to go on vacation. Where are you gonna go?

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Speaker 1: I mean, California. You got a lot of different options.

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Speaker 1: If you are in the LA area, you can go

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Speaker 1: you can go to the mountains to Big Bear, you

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Speaker 1: can go to San Diego. You can go to the

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Speaker 1: beaches that are open. You could take a trip up

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Speaker 1: to the Bay Area, go to Tahoe if you wanted to.

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Speaker 1: You could do surfing, you could do hiking, you could

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Speaker 1: do rafting of water sports. There's all sorts of different

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Speaker 1: things you can do in California, and that's part of

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Speaker 1: the reason lifestyle scores really well on the happiness index.

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Speaker 1: And that's why California is one of the happiest states

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Speaker 1: in which to live. Ha ha. We are not necessarily

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Speaker 1: the happyest of all states. In fact, California is not

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Speaker 1: even in the top five. Sadly. No. A new study

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Speaker 1: was out by Schoolaroo. Oh, yes, the well respected and

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Speaker 1: timeless Schoolaroo. Everyone's quite familiar. What does Schoolaroo say? And

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Speaker 1: where is the best place to live? Where's the happiest

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Speaker 1: place to live? And why didn't California score better? Scholarly Massachusetts?

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Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry, yeah, sorry, guys, I had my audio done.

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Speaker 1: Massachusetts is the happiest state Massachusetts. Eric's like you okay,

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Speaker 1: now my audio was down there, guys. Sorry, it was

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Speaker 1: playing in my ear. It's not in yours for a second. No,

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Speaker 1: sorry about that, guys. Yeah, Massachusetts is the happiest state Massachusetts.

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Speaker 6: Massachusetts came in as the happiest state.

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Speaker 1: Masachusetts is the happiest state. My goodness. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: met a Bruins fan, now, a Ucla Bruins, A Boston

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Speaker 1: Bruins fan. They're miserable people. Patriots fans, horrible people. Somebody

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Speaker 1: that's graduated from Harvard just a miserable bear. It's terrible.

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Speaker 1: That's Massachusetts.

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Speaker 6: The best place either of you lived in Massachusetts?

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Speaker 2: Were you happy? I was very young, but I don't

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Speaker 2: think so.

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Speaker 6: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Well, see, people that lived in Massachusetts are not happy,

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Speaker 1: is said by former Massachusetts residents. This is from Kekel

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Speaker 1: by the way to each right.

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Speaker 6: Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York rounded out the

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Speaker 6: top five.

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Speaker 1: New Jersey people in New Jersey are happy. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: call for a recount on this one. Yeah. I think

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Speaker 1: somebody was stuff in the ballot box. Yep, this is

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Speaker 1: definitely not okay.

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Speaker 6: Now, the least happy states are Alabama, Louisiana, between where

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Speaker 6: you came from, Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas, and the state with

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Speaker 6: the most unhappy residents is West Virginia.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Kansas, West Virginia.

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Speaker 1: The least happy states in the Union. All right, happiest

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Speaker 1: states in the Union again, Massachusetts, Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey,

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Speaker 1: New York. We're seeing a blue red divide here, aren't

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Speaker 1: we according to.

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Speaker 6: That study, Yes, anybody lived in West Virginia.

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Speaker 2: No, I have visited.

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Speaker 1: Okay, then they just talk about nothing. All right, Why

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Speaker 1: does California do well? We are number two in the

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Speaker 1: the winter time skiing, skiing, skiing, skiing, you can go swimming, right.

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Speaker 1: I always love that I moved to California and the

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Speaker 1: people that were here as I was interviewing for a

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Speaker 1: job in San Diego. California's great. Where else can you

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Speaker 1: go skiing and surfing in the same day, That's true,

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Speaker 1: you can. I don't know how many people actually do that.

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Speaker 1: If you have good anya, that's awesome. A lot of

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Speaker 1: us talk about it but never actually do it. You

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Speaker 1: can go skiing and surfing in the same day. You

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Speaker 1: have to fight traffic in between. But there's so many

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Speaker 1: different leisure activities. And even if you're not into the

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Speaker 1: outdoor sporting activities, lord knows, there's plenty of things you

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Speaker 1: can do. Whether it's museums or theater or comedy clubs

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Speaker 1: or just going to the movies, whatever it is, there's

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Speaker 1: plenty going on in California. On social policies, we were

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Speaker 1: number one, like workplace protection for pregnant women, LGBTQ rights,

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Speaker 1: and other social policies that we have, California leads the way.

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Speaker 1: As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation. Right. However,

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Speaker 1: personal relationships, we are in the bottom third of the

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Speaker 1: nation and dead last when it comes to personal finance

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Speaker 1: out of the fifty states. Why is California not ranked

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Speaker 1: higher as the happiest place to be It's because we're

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Speaker 1: all brought personal finance weighed things like home ownership, income savings,

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Speaker 1: and bankruptcy rates, and California is the worst in the

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Speaker 1: country when it comes to those things. Let's face it,

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Speaker 1: it's a cost living situation. Now, this has been broken

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Speaker 1: down for decades to call it the sunshine tax. Right, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's more expensive to live in California. But look at

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Speaker 1: this fantastic weather that we have, which is true, there's

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Speaker 1: no doubt we're not really worried about hurricanes wiping us out.

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Speaker 1: Wildfires are a problem, but we don't We don't have hurricanes.

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Speaker 1: Tornadoes are rare. Granted, we get the occasional earthquake, but generally,

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Speaker 1: it's a pretty great place to be as far as

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Speaker 1: Mother nature is concerned. But does that offset what you're

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Speaker 1: paying on a house When you've got to median home

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Speaker 1: values up near a million dollars, a million dollars, a

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Speaker 1: million here, a million there, Pretty soon you're talking about

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Speaker 1: real money. That's why California didn't score higher. It's a

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Speaker 1: personal finance. I will tell you when I first did

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Speaker 1: what you know, when I was interviewing and I came

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Speaker 1: to California, I talked to a woman on the plane.

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Speaker 1: I became one of those obnoxious people that talks to

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Speaker 1: strangers on a plane, and I said, Hey, I'm interviewing

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Speaker 1: for a job in San Diego. And this woman said, oh,

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Speaker 1: I lived in Escondido my whole life. When I said, oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: well what do you like about it? And she goes, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's great. You can go surfing and skiing in the

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Speaker 1: same day, and there's so much to do, and you're

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Speaker 1: just you're at the hub, You're in the center of everything.

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Speaker 1: It's just a wonderful place. I said, okay, what do

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Speaker 1: you not like about it? She said two things, traffic

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Speaker 1: and the cost of living. And I gotta tell you.

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Speaker 1: The longer I spent here, the more time I spent here,

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Speaker 1: the more I I thought this woman had it nailed.

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Speaker 1: Before I ever moved to California, I go, Okay, cost

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Speaker 1: of living, right, it's expensive and the traffic, And I

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Speaker 1: got to tell you, that's it. What are the other irritants?

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Speaker 1: I can't. I don't have other irritants. That's it. I'm

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Speaker 1: expensive and I hate wasting time and traffic. She was

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent right. And the longer I'm here, the

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Speaker 1: more that bears out the rest of it. Fantastic. Some

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Speaker 1: of the best people I've ever met my entire life,

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Speaker 1: some of the greatest experiences I've ever had, and I

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Speaker 1: look forward to more experiences. But dog on it, if

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have those experiences, it's going to take me

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Speaker 1: an hour just to get twenty minutes what should be

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes from my house. All right, The art of

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Speaker 1: the deal is deadded the art of the deal. The

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Speaker 1: art of debate, I should say, is dead. The art

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Speaker 1: of debate is dead. Why is the art of debate dead?

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Speaker 1: I'll give you one guess. It starts with the P

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