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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Kendall and Casey Show. My name is
Craig Collins. Back for another day. Thrilled to be with you.
So much stuff out there to talk about, and I
think I'm going to try a little harder to do
news today than I did yesterday filling in on this show.
Of course, the discussion about everything going on in Minnesota
has gone to a fever pitch level at least four
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people that actually care about the news. If you're the
mainstream media outlets out there in news, the left leaning ones,
you're trying to ignore the hell out of this story.
You're doing everything you can, in fact, to pretend it's
not happening. But Tim Walls looks worse and worse all
the time. Minnesota looks more and more insane. But yesterday,
and this is sort of interesting to me, the Leering Center,
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which is the place that misspelled learning that went viral
as part of Nick Shirley's video, actually did have kids
at it. I don't know if you've seen this, but
online on social media, on acts of on Twitter, on
the place that did absolutely change how much information we
do and don't know, I mean, just for a second,
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before I talk more about the cultural Leering Center and
how they bust in children to have kids running around there.
And also they failed to coordinate the lie because as
some of the politicians were out there saying that place
has been closed for weeks and that's why Nick Shirley
when he showed up there didn't see any kids. The
other thing that was happening along with all the kids
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that were showing up yesterday is they were saying their
hours of operation are actually later in the day. They're
like two to six o'clock for when they watch kids.
They're the after school program a version of watching children.
So it's totally different. It's not a full time daycare,
even though it gets millions of dollars for the hours
in which they claim kids are actually there, and a
bunch of people standing around are like, we've never seen
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a child there at all until now. But anyway, the
thing that I thought was so interesting about all of
this is that without Elon Musk owning X, owning Twitter,
and Nick Shirley himself even said this on social media,
the twenty somethingter YouTuber who broke.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
This story, or at least furthered this story.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
He didn't break it per se, but he definitely gave
us a concrete version of how crappy this fraud is
or how ridiculous it is. But anyway, without Elon owning Twitter,
this would have been a silence thing.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
This would have been shouted down.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
They would have said the person doing it was making
up all kinds of lies and it had to be
censored and no one would have seen it. Instead, millions
and millions of people saw it. What's crazy is actually
on YouTube, his video only has like one point four
or something million views, which seems as though maybe it's
it is getting silenced.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
More than Twitter.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And I understand a view on Twitter isn't the same
as a view on say, YouTube or anywhere else, but
having one hundred million plus views on one platform seems
to demonstrate that there is actually a lot of value
behind what's going on. But anyway, the biggest thing I
think that is coming out now that seems to further
demonstrate how ridiculous all of this is is how long
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people in Minnesota have known about fraud, daycare fraud, Somalian
community fraud, all of it. There's videos from twenty eighteen
of daycares that we're pretending to have kids at them
so that they could bill a bunch of money. And
in that scam, which actually has video now online too,
you see the parents drop the kids off, you see
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the parents come back ten minutes later and pick up
the kids, and you find out that the parents are
tied directly to the amount of people getting money from
the daycare. So it's just employees, if you even want
to call them that, who are bringing their kids by
and then leaving with them, and then they're getting their
cut of the check.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And the fact that they haven't done anything about it,
and that Walls is actually out there trying to say
that they are fighting this as hard as they possibly
can is even crazier. But I think the most clous
thing yesterday, and I do have like video of it,
and so there's audio I can play, But the fact
that there were actually kids there yesterday.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Is just insane.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And you have the person who runs the place saying
that it's legitimate and that the money hasn't been stopped yet.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And actually, my favorite.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Maybe of all the things that I saw about the
Quality Leering Center, was also the fact that he explained
the sign the guy said that they bought they paid
a graphic designer the graphic designer didn't do a really
good job, but they didn't want to spend more money
on another sign. They only have a few million from
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the government to deal with here, so why update the sign?
What's the importance of that? No one seemed to care.
Was the statement from the guy who owns the place,
or at least runs the place, that is hilarious, hilariously awful,
but definitely hilarious.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
So that's a big story. It's all over the place.
It keeps getting covered, and Nick Shirley is getting intact. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I guess the most predictable thing that's happening in all
of this is Tim Walls and others are saying that
it's racism, it's white supremacy or some version of it,
which to me, you know what's really disappointing about watching
people like that say stuff like that is that for
some individuals it works. For a vast majority of us
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it doesn't, and we know it's ridiculous and stupid, and
you can defeat it because it's trying to absolutely distract
from the real thing going on to say that someone
has demonstrated the the insanity of fraud to a degree
where you have multiple businesses inside the same building that
are all daycares and none of them have any kids
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at them, or all you know, elderly health facilities that
have no connection to any sort of providing of healthcare
to anyone. When you demonstrate all that, and you know,
the on the face value of the discussion is obviously
beyond the race of the people. Now, granted, if an
entire community, which in this case in Minnesota, it seems
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like a lot of people within a community are doing
something similar. It seems like a lot of fraud is
going on within the Somalian community in Minnesota. So that's
worth describing and talking about. And no, I hate that
I even say this on radio, or that anyone feels
the need to say this. I'm not saying that everyone
from Somalia is a fraudster. I'm not saying that. I
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don't know what percentage it is. To be honest, if
you pay attention to what's going on in Minnesota, you
might scratch your head in wonder because you know, mathematically
and simply speaking, you would say it's a really small
percentage of anybody that does any of these crimes. But
the percentage seems pretty high in some cases. Of the
amount of people within a community who are part of
this you know, scam going on. But nonetheless, of course
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I'm not saying that means everybody from any one place
is a fraudster. I just think it's sort of incredible
that you get to the point where people start to
tell you that it just has to be racism, Like, oh,
you just you got to be racist. You woke up
in the morning, you hate black people or people specifically
from Somalia for some reason, you hate somebody, and so
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then you tell us the truth, and you tell us
the truth because of your hate. Like that, that doesn't
make sense. You have to realize the stupidity of that statement.
If I tell you a lie, a significant lie, in fact,
it could be driven by hate. If I tell you
the truth, it can't be driven by that. There's no
way to say that that in and of itself. Now, granted,
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if I go beyond the truth in some way to
add certain caveats that then aren't true, maybe you can
eventually identify me as being motivated by something other than
telling the truth. But it's just crazy that that's where
we go. And actually, there's one last thing I wanted
to say about this before I take a break, and
it's specifically about Tim Walls, who's a white guy. So
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if I crapple over Tim Walls, I don't know what
that makes me. Is also a white guy. I guess
I'm you know, a white racist against my own I'm
not sure. But Tim Walls is the absolute embodiment of
the pieces of crap that wind up in politics. And
here's what I mean by that. Tim Walls is someone
who does the stupid jazz hand stuff when he goes
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on stage. He tries to be an effeminate version of
a man because he thinks it's successful with his political party.
He wants to be like the guy who acts strange
and you know, attacks men all the time. As a
person who at one point was actually within our military,
and when you talk about his military career, he's a
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stolen valor guy. He lied about all kinds of things
that he did in the military that he did not do,
and then he quit at a time when people thought
that he was actually and he probably knew he was
going to be asked to do, you know, the hard
part of that job, and then he left and he
ran away. Essentially, this is a person who is fake
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who is a piece of crap in every regard, who
lies constantly, and they're the kind of person who is
willing to defraud a daycare system in their own state
and get a kickback of some kind, which I'm assuming
had to happen. I can't tell you definitively that it did.
But there's no way that fraud can be this blatant
and last for this long, and nobody in the government
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that's supposed to be preventing it is somehow benefiting from
letting it keep going. There have to be a bunch
of people, and of course ilhan Omar comes to mind
as someone who is Somali and herself and certainly has
defended everything about this community to a degree where you say,
can't you at least admit the crimes that are happening,
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the bad things that are going on. Can't you say
that those are actually things that you think we shouldn't
have in society, regardless of what community is doing it.
But nonetheless, Tim Walls, to me is exactly the reason
why people actually care about performative politics, and why I
say that people who perform like him, who do the
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jazz hand stuff and all the stupid things that he
does are probably the people who behind closed doors are
the worst of the worst in politics because they're so
willing to do so many things that are manipulative and
you know, lies and all that other stuff. They're so
willing to throw any sort of value system they have
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out the window if it means that they're going to
benefit from it, whether that benefit is votes or in
this case, I imagine, just straight up money.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
All right, we'll take a break.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
We'll talk about some lighter things, as it is still
the holiday. We'll try to do some serious news related stuff,
because darn it, that is the point of being on
ninety three WIBC and on our radio in general is
to inform you, So we will do both of those
things today. Craig Collins filling in on the Kendall and
Casey Show, ninety three WIBC. This is the Kendall and
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case Show, ninety three WIBC. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Producer Kylin hanging
out on special assignment. I mentioned it yesterday. The Indiana
Pacers are in Houston, Texas, or at least they were
last night, and I felt like I should go to that.
I'm not a Houston, Texas Houston Rockets fan.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I just moved to Houston from the Midwest about eight
nine months ago. But the Pacers are here, and actually
the Colts will be playing this weekend, also in the
city I happen to be in right now. So I
felt compelled to go, especially since I was on WIBC
Now yesterday when I was talking about this with Kylon.
I mentioned that the Rockets were good, which I knew
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because the community that I live in is demonstrating to
me in a lot of conversations how the Rockets are
a good basketball team this year. And I also assumed
the Pacers were good, but I haven't been paying attention
to very much NBA. To be candid, I was very
wrong about that, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Not trying to be mean. I know the Pacers are
an important team.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I think they have games that happened within our family
of radio and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But they're bad at basketball. This is this was atrocious.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I think they're the worst team in the NBA, as
I found out last night watching the game, and part
of that, I'm sure is because key players are hurt,
so it makes it harder to be, you know, as
good as you were last year. But truthfully, this game
was ugly and the fact that Kevin Durant can put
thirty points you know, on the board as easily as
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he did, set out a decent amount of the second
half of the game, and actually all of the Rockets
starters can sit out a decent amount of the second
half of that game, and they still won by six
or seven points, and they were winning by twenty, you know,
into the third quarter.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I think it was.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Sad because I went there, I didn't know who to
cheer for. I didn't cheer for either team. I didn't wear,
you know, any sort of clothing for either team because
I was going to decide there how things went. And
part of me did start to cheer for the Pacers
as the faux version of the comeback happened because I
felt bad for them. It was kind of like watching
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the little league team that shouldn't you know, be playing anymore.
They probably need to go back and practice a little bit.
And this sounds overly mean to a professional basketball team,
so I don't mean this quite as badly as it sounds,
but you felt bad for them the way you feel
bad for the little league team that doesn't win many
games at least I did watching this game last night,
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and I was there in person in Houston to watch
the Pacers, you know again struggle, which was sack because
like just last year they were a playoff team. So
this this seems And Kylin, what were you telling me
about some of the posters in Indianapolis that are saying
something about this team on.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Some of the buildings across like just going through the streets,
it says remixed for now, which is kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And to the young, to the to the not young
people out there, when you say something like remixed, that
means that what exactly what are they trying to say
with the billboard?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Is that a young person slang?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well, I feel like it's leaning towards the We know
this isn't gonna be like the team, but yeah, just
like making it through the year. I think we all
admitted at the beginning that this was a by year.
We're just gonna Yeah, We're happy with anyone that we've
gotten and to beat the Bulls twice, we'll take it.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Hey, there you go.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, to have six wins, and two of them against
Chicago that's fine.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Well, and I actually was a Bulls fan as a kid,
And now I don't know what I am a fan of.
And I don't know why the NBA specifically is something
that I lost interest in. It might be the political
stuff that people talk about. It also just might be
the changes to the game. I don't like the fact
that there's no hand checking, and I don't like the
fact that, you know, the version of basketball they play
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today is heavily reliant on great three point shooters being
at every position on the team, even though I actually
used to shoot threes when I played basketball. Oh and
you know what, I'm going to brag about something, Kylan,
and it's not It's not a deserving brag. Anytime I've
ever talked about this in radio, it sounds way cooler
than it is, even though it's true. And if you
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asked me to, like, you know, go out on the
basketball court and prove to you that I'm as skilled
as I'm going to make it sound like I am,
I doubt I can do it. But when I went
to Holy Cross in South Bend, Indiana, I went to
college there, I played on their basketball team, the Holy
Cross basketball team, which is part of, you know, a
junior college circuit, which then I think even somehow at
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times obviously feels a connection.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
To Notre Dame, even though they're nowhere near as good
as Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And now they recruit players and stuff, and I think
they're actually fairly good within the junior college basketball division
they play in. When I went to Holy Cross, they
had just launched the basketball team, so I walked on
both years because everybody walked on.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Every part of the team.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Was people who showed up at a random tryout. And
I think even the first year, we weren't actually in
a league, so mostly we played like men's teams in
the YMCA. Like it was terrible, But I technically can
say I played college basketball.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I had a pair of college basketball.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Shorts, a jersey, all the things, and I showed up
and I played games connected to a university that now
does much better. So I just love saying that that
I played college basketball in Indiana, the mecca of basketball
in the country. I know, did I make that sound
as unimpressive as it actually is or did it still
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sound kind of impressive.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Hey, you'll take the wins where you can. That's okay.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, we were the Indianapolis Pacers of college basketball at
the time that I was playing on it today this
year's version of the Indianapolis Pacers. Although we did have
a few players who could dunk, which is sad that
most of us could not do it. That's probably not
good by the time you get to college. But a
few of us could so that I was not one
of them, but that was cool to see the people
who could do that. And you know, lob the ball
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to Matt Smallbones is the actual name of one of
the players on the team. I hope that guy still
lives in Indiana because if somehow he's listening to WIBC
today wherever he is in his life, I just know
that I still think that you're one of the best
basketball players ever was on the same team with, you know,
and I'm impressed Matt Smallbones probably could have played on
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an actual junior college basketball team and not the one
he happened to be on. And I love that I
went full name there again because hopefully he is listening
somewhere out there, somebody tells him about it. Someone who
knows him is probably going to tell him, hey man,
you were mentioned in WIBC today. I don't really know why.
I don't really know how that was going or what
was going on there. I remember when we played Bethel.
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Bethel is a pretty good college in Indiana for basketball,
and they destroyed us. They ripped us a new one,
and I remember the only reason that that game was
fun was Matt Smallbones dunked on that team, and we
all went crazy on the bench when he did that.
Because we were losing by like I think, thirty points.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It was not a good.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Situation, but hey, if you get one dunk, you feel
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Better that way, and I guess that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Plus, we had a five foot seven guy I can't
remember his name that could also dunk, and that's not
good that I don't remember his name, but yeah, he could,
I the Matt.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Maybe his name was also Matt's. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Anyway, I've now talked about Indiana and basketball, so I
feel like if anybody was complaining that I didn't cover
enough things in the world of the state in which
this show is actually aired or the city in which
it's aired, hey man, I just crushed it. Just none
of it was politically relevant to the state but all
of it was about the state. So really there, I
think it's a win. Is that a win, Kylon or No?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, if that's the case, let's just talk about IU
football too.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Sure, well that's coming up on Thursday, and that's going
to be incredible. They actually seem like they might be good,
all right, like really really good, like they could win
a championship. Good, Let's take a break, let's do some stuff,
and we'll come back and just I U football the
rest of the half hour.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Probably maybe not.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Craig Collins filling in on the Kendall and Casey Show,
ninety three WIBC. This is the Kendall and Casey Show,
ninety three WIBC. My name is Craig Collins, filling in.
I was kid about doing a deep dive in IU football.
Although last year was a tad disappointing the way that
IU went out of the playoff, this year, it feels
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like they might truly have a shot at winning a
national championship, which would be insane.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But I look now I'm talking about it.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
It would be insane for IU to that quickly go
from being one of the worst college teams in all
of football to potentially winning a championship. It's truly amazing
the changes that have been done there and the likelihood
for IU to be a good football team for a
while moving forward. Now, even as a college football is
a tough place to stay good because of how often
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players are leaving on how much of the changes to
the college game have impacted the way that teams retain
even talent of the side standard the transfer portal and
move somewhere else. But anyway, it's just interesting that's out
there that'll happen. On Thursday, I did a deep dive
before the show into the biggest political stories of.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Twenty twenty five within Indiana.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
This is something that I did have pre prep for
today that I feel like maybe I should do. There's
a few different ones that were interesting to me on
this list, but far and away, and if you tried
to look other places for the most significant stories being
talked about within the state in the world of politics,
redistricting way above everything else, and the Indiana Senate eventually
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kiboshed the idea to redistrict the state. And I know
there's a lot of people, I believe some of them
on this show and on the station who are a
fan of the idea that the redistricting didn't happen, And
I bet you they have really good reasons for that.
I'm not going to speak for them, but I bet
their reasons are good. But I will tell you that
from the periphery, from the outside looking in, as you
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would like to not have President Trump be a lame
duck president for the last two of the four years
he's in office in his second term, after a break
in between those two terms, when you want that as
badly as I think a lot of conservatives do, because
the alternative is nothing gets done for two years and
then somebody else on either side of the aisle tries
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to be the next president. At jd Vance seems to
have the best shot at it now, but who knows.
When you look at all that from the outside, you
wish that we could have done more things, we being
Conservatives or Republicans, to retain control of the House of
the Senate and to continue to have the ability to
actually get things done in the world of any sort
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of administration agenda that Trump would like to accomplish. And
here in Texas where I happen to live, which provides
me an even greater I think context to the differences
between the two states. Texas did the thing they did
the redistricting. It went all the way to the Supreme Court.
We thought it was going to get blocked for a
little bit. Then it actually is going to be allowed.
Although who knows there will be a case not even
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about Texas's redistricting that might wind up determining if the
redistricting lasts or if it just winds up in place
for a midterm election.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
All this is stuff happening supremeport level.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But the question I think to me when I watched
the way Indiana did it, was why, like, why not
go ahead and fight fire with fire? Democrats do this. Illinois,
the state just simply a little bit that stone's throw
away from Indianapolis where I used to live in Chicago
for a long time, has a ridiculous map. If you
look at Illinois map, you see how much of the
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state is carved through places like Chicago, so that all
of the suburbs and even well beyond the suburbs can
be influenced by that one very populous city. The same
holds true in other parts of Illinois, where you have
some you know, pretty democratic locations around a whole lot
of very not democratic. You know, rural areas. Indiana feels
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the same way. Indianapolis feels the same way to me,
and yet they overwhelmingly vote conservative already, which is good
and it's helpful and it gets you further, you know,
down the finish line of getting things done. But that's
truthfully all that politics is right now. I think at
the national level, to me, unfortunately, Democrats more so than Republicans.
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And I can validate that argument, I promise you. I
think things like the fight over the Speaker of the
House demonstrate how Republicans are not hive minded. They're not
unilaterally thinking the way that Democrats do, although I'm sure
it's still much more uniform than it was back in
the day. But nonetheless, I say this the way that
politics works at that level now. It's so we don't
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care about doing things that are good for society. We
care about our team getting points that if Democrats do
wind up taking back control of the House and or
the Senate, nothing will happen, nothing will get done at all. Look,
I've said this before and I'll say it again. Barack
Obama did more than any other president in my lifetime
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to consolidate power within the White House. They accuse that
of being a Trump thing all the time. They're like, ah, Trump,
He's so terrible and wants to be a king. But
when Obama was in office, one of the big things
he did, through executive orders and everything else, was consolidate
power in the executive branch. Now, some people would say
the reason he did that is his house. His Senate
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was also gridlocked. They also forced him quote unquote, which
I don't believe, but this is something people would say
they forced him to go that road. But we've seen
that more and more with anyone.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Who winds up in the office of president.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
The amount of executive orders they passed within the first
few days of being in office. Even the auto pen
president in Biden did a bunch of that. And so
I really wish that Indiana had done more to potentially
redistrict at state and not fight this. And I think
I said it on a show filling in for Tony Katz.
The reason I believe Indiana didn't do this is pride.
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I really think a lot of those politicians don't like
being told what to do, and then they pushed throughout
whatever system they're in to tell the other people we
don't like to be told what to do because it
would have been when it could have been a win.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Is what I would say.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
If you create a few more seats in a place
that is easily described as predominantly conservative, the state is
a very conservative state, and so it would be a
true reflection of the majority of the state to send
more conservatives to Washington, which.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Is what I say here.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Is it a true reflection of places like Indianapolis or
Houston where I live for Texas, No, it's not a
true reflection of those cities, But those cities aren't really
a good reflection of the totality of the state. It
just so happens that a whole lot of people in
a very small area believe something very different than the
rest of the state believes. All Right, Another big story
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out there as far as political news in Indiana this
year was the deep Fake video and Indiana Lieutenant Governor
Micah beckw That was a big, big story. Representative Craig
Haggard's wife was involved in this, and it's sort of
horrible and awful to think that we're at a point
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in society where these sort of things might become the norm.
And I don't mean politically, I mean in general, the
amount of AI and the capability of AI to do
pretty much anything. I mean, South Park is a show
that has taken a bunch of shots at Trump recently.
It's probably a show that a whole lot of conservatives
no longer like. And I get that they did an
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episode of their show though recently, which was much more
specific to AI and deep fakes and craziness there, and
it was commentary on the society in which we currently live.
There is a ridiculous amount of this. So the fact
that this story was one of the biggest ones in
politics is sad in a lot of ways. But I
do think the attempt to cover up what was going on,
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whether people were innocent or guilty themselves. You know, if
you're at the top of a chain and you are
innocent of the crime whatever, I know it's not a
crime per se, but you're being accused of doing anything bad.
If you're at the top of the food chain and
you try to hide it, you try to distract from
it instead of addressing it, it does make you look
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guilty too.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
It's just the way that that works.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
So again I'm not saying who I think was or
wasn't an accomplice in the ridiculousness of that story or
the terribleness of that story. But I will say that
just from my opinion, you know, you have to Nobody
does this in politics, which is why it.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Would be so jarring.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You'd have to actually authentically just you know, tell us
what happened, tell us the people who were involved, be transparent.
I guess I'll say this because I know this projection
also looked forward to twenty twenty six and how Braun
might use executive orders to get more things done. I
think the American people in the world of politics are
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so desperate for authenticity. And I've said this before about
why Trump is actually popular. Trump says and does things,
whether you think they're mean, the mean tweets and all
that stuff that I think he would say or do
wherever he was, if he was in front of a
camera or not. And people like that. They like the
authenticity of that. They like believing that the person they
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see on television is the same person behind the scenes
getting things done. And we don't have much of that
in politics at all. And I think people are so
desperate for that that if you gave us a little
more of that and a little bit less of the
other crap, that there would be a likelihood that people
would be tremendously popular in the world. Just some other
quick things to run through as far as stuff that
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was on this story before I take a break. Property
tax changes I was a big deal in Indiana, of course,
a big deal in some places other than Indiana too.
Property taxes I think are always going to be a
win with the American people to say we're trying to
give more money back to you.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
However you do it now.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Granted, as you do that, there might be ways where
you start actually adding additional taxes. I think there was
a way to allow local income tax to become a
more significant hit on your pocketbook. So that's not good,
even as the property tax changes I might have been
good for a lot of people. And then finally, one
last one mentioned was the death of Charlie Kirk and
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how it impacted Indiana specifically, how college campuses at Ball State,
Purdue IU, wherever it might be responded and their turning point.
USA branches responded to the tragic murder of a person
that was an absolutely very significant individual in the world
of politics and probably someone who would have been very important,
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and I imagine Turning Point USA will still be important
in upcoming elections. So tremendous loss, I think for the
political world. But also it seemed to a lot of
people in the state of Indiana who dealt with the
fallout of that person's death. And also I think, and
this was a challenge that came from the tragedy to
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have more people be outspoken, and I think that is happening,
and I definitely think in places like Indiana and some
of the colleges that I just mentioned a second ago,
the likelihood of people being more comfortable being vocal is
higher than in some other crazy states, simple neighbors just
to you know, the west of Indiana who seem to
want to shout down these opinions more at a state level,
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being in a republican state and being in an organization
like Turning Point USA, I think people might underestimate the
value of that for young people and young voters compared
to being in Turning Point USA, in the middle of
a Chicago, you know city, or in the city of
Chicago or suburb of Chicago at one of those colleges.
All Right, we'll take a break. We'll do some fun stuff.
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We probably promise. I know it's the holiday. I know
I like being lighthearted, so we'll do that after this.
Craig Collins filling in Kendall and Casey ninety three WIBC.
This is the Kendall and Casey Show, ninety three WIBC.
My name is Craig Collins, filling in producer Kylon on
special assignment. I think playing songs that the chat is singing?
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Are you telling me that the chat is doing a
sing along out of some of this stuff?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
They were earlier they were singing Lie Girl by the Temptations,
But this is a.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Good I gotta ask. I got to ask.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
How can you tell that they're singing in the chat?
Do they like do the singing somehow with the words,
with their typing? Are they typing I'm singing this?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Sometimes they'll put the emoji with the music notes, but
right now it's just been like one of the comments
was I've got sunshine on a cloudy day?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Oh I sing? All right?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Well, I want the chat to prove that they're actually singing.
They can send us voice messages somehow and we'll play those.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Now we won't.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Oh, we probably won't play, but we might who knows.
But you can send us audio of you singing, and
then I'll believe it. Then I'll think it's real. I
saw this. This is one of my favorite places on
social media. Am I the jerk is what I describe
it as on Reddit. It's actually the A word. And
I'm pretty sure I can say the A word on
the radio.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I just don't do it. But am I the A word?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
People go there, they ask who's the jerk in a situation?
Me or somebody else, and they tell a little story.
A woman went to this platform and she said that
she's curious if she's the jerk or not because her
husband refuses to tell her what he makes at his job.
The husband doesn't want his wife to know his salary
and has some money somewhere in some bank account that
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she can't have access to, and she's wondering if she's
the jerk, which felt horrible to read, to be honest
with you, because of course she's not. Of course he's
the jerk here. He says that he wants to save
the money or he wants to know do good things
with it, and he's more of the saver. She's more
of the spender, like he has excuses. But the reason
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I thought this was so ridiculous is that it would
never fly in my home to try to hide some
amount of money from my wife, Like that's a crazy
thing to say out loud and to do. She would
have access to every penny that comes through this system
in any way she needs to, because of course she does.
And of course this seems wrong to keep that kind
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of information from the person you're you're married to, even
like every year doing the taxes, you should be able
to know the amount of money you made as a couple,
because the taxes is not something that the husband just
gets to do.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
The wife should also be allowed.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
To do them. So it's just kind of insane. Do
you want to react to the story, Kylin.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I'm curious how old they are and if the age
makes a difference, because I know some generations they didn't
talk about finances and that's obviously very important nowadays. Sure,
it's one of the recommendations before you get married, you
need to talk about your finances and what that would
look like and if you're going to mesh.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Oh yeah, they said they've been married for nine years,
so I don't know the age of the people and
it could be a second marriage or something. But I'm
actually guessing they're not, you know, terribly, you know, beyond
the generation of people who look for information or advice online.
It's a specific generation that usually goes to the internet
to get advice in this.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
But again, I just think it's kind of terrible that
someone would think that it might be okay. Like the
thing that I feel bad about when I read the
am I the jerk posts occasionally is that the person
who's writing it thinks they could actually be the jerk,
you know, like they actually think it. Maybe it's debatable
on what time we're on. This one's not debatable. Tell
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her how much money you make, you giant, giant jerk,
and do it now, and then, you know, do whatever
you can to save it if you really think she's
going to spend it all. But I think that's a
bridge you cross after you get there, not beforehand. But
this is just it was crazy to me to read,
how you know, unaware the person was of if this
is a normal thing. And I think I always filter
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it through my own relationship and how mad my wife
would be at me if I did the thing that
someone else is.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Talking about, and this would be a big problem.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
This would be a big issue, although like for a
little bit, it'd be a surprise, like if I was
making way more money than the wife knew. I think
there'd be a few minutes where she'd be like, oh
my god, that's great, and then also then beat me.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
With a shoe.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
All right, so that's true. It's actually it's a thing. Yeah,
the child Okay, you know, you know the exact reference.
My wife is surgical with a chankola. It is incredible.
I think she could hit someone outside a window in
a car driving away, you know, in like a separate state.
I think she's that good at it, all right, other
things out there. I saw this someone wrote on a
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self help place, my job is making me depressed?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Is it okay? Or is it selfish to quit?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I have a different opinion about this than say, maybe
some in my age bracket would have you can quit
your job for any reason.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Go ahead, do whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
But yeah, it could potentially be selfish to leave a gig,
especially if you're I think this person's in a relationship
without having a replacement gig lined up, because it's going
to cause a lot of issues financially for the family.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
So yes, it absolutely could.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Be selfish to forego money you're making in order to
you know, not be making that money. But if it's
something where it's as bad as this person is saying
for their mental health, you probably should be looking for
another job. You shouldn't be staying there regardless. But I
don't think that just quitting outright before you have the
other gig can be described as anything other than selfish
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if a family is depending on that money.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Do you want to weigh in on this one, Kylan
or no, no notes.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
No, it's for real, you shouldn't stay at the job
if it's not helpful for you.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
But yes you should not definitely quit right Yeah, but
you shouldn't quit right away without another gig lined up.
At least do even if it's not the same money.
Get a job doing something that you can leave the
job that's making you depressed. All right, let's hit no notes,
thank you, We're taking a break. A lot coming up.
Craig Collins filling in Kendall and Casey ninety three WIBC
This is the Kendall and Casey Show. My name is
Craig Collins. Back for another day. Thrilled to be with you.
So much stuff out there to talk about, and I
think I'm going to try a little harder to do
news today than I did yesterday filling in on this show.
Of course, the discussion about everything going on in Minnesota
has gone to a fever pitch level at least four
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people that actually care about the news. If you're the
mainstream media outlets out there in news, the left leaning ones,
you're trying to ignore the hell out of this story.
You're doing everything you can, in fact, to pretend it's
not happening. But Tim Walls looks worse and worse all
the time. Minnesota looks more and more insane. But yesterday,
and this is sort of interesting to me, the Leering Center,
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which is the place that misspelled learning that went viral
as part of Nick Shirley's video, actually did have kids
at it. I don't know if you've seen this, but
online on social media, on acts of on Twitter, on
the place that did absolutely change how much information we
do and don't know, I mean, just for a second,
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before I talk more about the cultural Leering Center and
how they bust in children to have kids running around there.
And also they failed to coordinate the lie because as
some of the politicians were out there saying that place
has been closed for weeks and that's why Nick Shirley
when he showed up there didn't see any kids. The
other thing that was happening along with all the kids
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that were showing up yesterday is they were saying their
hours of operation are actually later in the day. They're
like two to six o'clock for when they watch kids.
They're the after school program a version of watching children.
So it's totally different. It's not a full time daycare,
even though it gets millions of dollars for the hours
in which they claim kids are actually there, and a
bunch of people standing around are like, we've never seen
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a child there at all until now. But anyway, the
thing that I thought was so interesting about all of
this is that without Elon Musk owning X, owning Twitter,
and Nick Shirley himself even said this on social media,
the twenty somethingter YouTuber who broke.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
This story, or at least furthered this story.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
He didn't break it per se, but he definitely gave
us a concrete version of how crappy this fraud is
or how ridiculous it is. But anyway, without Elon owning Twitter,
this would have been a silence thing.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
This would have been shouted down.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
They would have said the person doing it was making
up all kinds of lies and it had to be
censored and no one would have seen it. Instead, millions
and millions of people saw it. What's crazy is actually
on YouTube, his video only has like one point four
or something million views, which seems as though maybe it's
it is getting silenced.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
More than Twitter.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And I understand a view on Twitter isn't the same
as a view on say, YouTube or anywhere else, but
having one hundred million plus views on one platform seems
to demonstrate that there is actually a lot of value
behind what's going on. But anyway, the biggest thing I
think that is coming out now that seems to further
demonstrate how ridiculous all of this is is how long
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people in Minnesota have known about fraud, daycare fraud, Somalian
community fraud, all of it. There's videos from twenty eighteen
of daycares that we're pretending to have kids at them
so that they could bill a bunch of money. And
in that scam, which actually has video now online too,
you see the parents drop the kids off, you see
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the parents come back ten minutes later and pick up
the kids, and you find out that the parents are
tied directly to the amount of people getting money from
the daycare. So it's just employees, if you even want
to call them that, who are bringing their kids by
and then leaving with them, and then they're getting their
cut of the check.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And the fact that they haven't done anything about it,
and that Walls is actually out there trying to say
that they are fighting this as hard as they possibly
can is even crazier. But I think the most clous
thing yesterday, and I do have like video of it,
and so there's audio I can play, But the fact
that there were actually kids there yesterday.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Is just insane.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And you have the person who runs the place saying
that it's legitimate and that the money hasn't been stopped yet.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And actually, my favorite.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Maybe of all the things that I saw about the
Quality Leering Center, was also the fact that he explained
the sign the guy said that they bought they paid
a graphic designer the graphic designer didn't do a really
good job, but they didn't want to spend more money
on another sign. They only have a few million from
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the government to deal with here, so why update the sign?
What's the importance of that? No one seemed to care.
Was the statement from the guy who owns the place,
or at least runs the place, that is hilarious, hilariously awful,
but definitely hilarious.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
So that's a big story. It's all over the place.
It keeps getting covered, and Nick Shirley is getting intact. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I guess the most predictable thing that's happening in all
of this is Tim Walls and others are saying that
it's racism, it's white supremacy or some version of it,
which to me, you know what's really disappointing about watching
people like that say stuff like that is that for
some individuals it works. For a vast majority of us
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it doesn't, and we know it's ridiculous and stupid, and
you can defeat it because it's trying to absolutely distract
from the real thing going on to say that someone
has demonstrated the the insanity of fraud to a degree
where you have multiple businesses inside the same building that
are all daycares and none of them have any kids
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at them, or all you know, elderly health facilities that
have no connection to any sort of providing of healthcare
to anyone. When you demonstrate all that, and you know,
the on the face value of the discussion is obviously
beyond the race of the people. Now, granted, if an
entire community, which in this case in Minnesota, it seems
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like a lot of people within a community are doing
something similar. It seems like a lot of fraud is
going on within the Somalian community in Minnesota. So that's
worth describing and talking about. And no, I hate that
I even say this on radio, or that anyone feels
the need to say this. I'm not saying that everyone
from Somalia is a fraudster. I'm not saying that. I
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don't know what percentage it is. To be honest, if
you pay attention to what's going on in Minnesota, you
might scratch your head in wonder because you know, mathematically
and simply speaking, you would say it's a really small
percentage of anybody that does any of these crimes. But
the percentage seems pretty high in some cases. Of the
amount of people within a community who are part of
this you know, scam going on. But nonetheless, of course
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I'm not saying that means everybody from any one place
is a fraudster. I just think it's sort of incredible
that you get to the point where people start to
tell you that it just has to be racism, Like, oh,
you just you got to be racist. You woke up
in the morning, you hate black people or people specifically
from Somalia for some reason, you hate somebody, and so
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then you tell us the truth, and you tell us
the truth because of your hate. Like that, that doesn't
make sense. You have to realize the stupidity of that statement.
If I tell you a lie, a significant lie, in fact,
it could be driven by hate. If I tell you
the truth, it can't be driven by that. There's no
way to say that that in and of itself. Now, granted,
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if I go beyond the truth in some way to
add certain caveats that then aren't true, maybe you can
eventually identify me as being motivated by something other than
telling the truth. But it's just crazy that that's where
we go. And actually, there's one last thing I wanted
to say about this before I take a break, and
it's specifically about Tim Walls, who's a white guy. So
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if I crapple over Tim Walls, I don't know what
that makes me. Is also a white guy. I guess
I'm you know, a white racist against my own I'm
not sure. But Tim Walls is the absolute embodiment of
the pieces of crap that wind up in politics. And
here's what I mean by that. Tim Walls is someone
who does the stupid jazz hand stuff when he goes
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on stage. He tries to be an effeminate version of
a man because he thinks it's successful with his political party.
He wants to be like the guy who acts strange
and you know, attacks men all the time. As a
person who at one point was actually within our military,
and when you talk about his military career, he's a
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stolen valor guy. He lied about all kinds of things
that he did in the military that he did not do,
and then he quit at a time when people thought
that he was actually and he probably knew he was
going to be asked to do, you know, the hard
part of that job, and then he left and he
ran away. Essentially, this is a person who is fake
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who is a piece of crap in every regard, who
lies constantly, and they're the kind of person who is
willing to defraud a daycare system in their own state
and get a kickback of some kind, which I'm assuming
had to happen. I can't tell you definitively that it did.
But there's no way that fraud can be this blatant
and last for this long, and nobody in the government
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that's supposed to be preventing it is somehow benefiting from
letting it keep going. There have to be a bunch
of people, and of course ilhan Omar comes to mind
as someone who is Somali and herself and certainly has
defended everything about this community to a degree where you say,
can't you at least admit the crimes that are happening,
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the bad things that are going on. Can't you say
that those are actually things that you think we shouldn't
have in society, regardless of what community is doing it.
But nonetheless, Tim Walls, to me is exactly the reason
why people actually care about performative politics, and why I
say that people who perform like him, who do the
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jazz hand stuff and all the stupid things that he
does are probably the people who behind closed doors are
the worst of the worst in politics because they're so
willing to do so many things that are manipulative and
you know, lies and all that other stuff. They're so
willing to throw any sort of value system they have
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out the window if it means that they're going to
benefit from it, whether that benefit is votes or in
this case, I imagine, just straight up money.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
All right, we'll take a break.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
We'll talk about some lighter things, as it is still
the holiday. We'll try to do some serious news related stuff,
because darn it, that is the point of being on
ninety three WIBC and on our radio in general is
to inform you, So we will do both of those
things today. Craig Collins filling in on the Kendall and
Casey Show, ninety three WIBC. This is the Kendall and
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case Show, ninety three WIBC. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Producer Kylin hanging
out on special assignment. I mentioned it yesterday. The Indiana
Pacers are in Houston, Texas, or at least they were
last night, and I felt like I should go to that.
I'm not a Houston, Texas Houston Rockets fan.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I just moved to Houston from the Midwest about eight
nine months ago. But the Pacers are here, and actually
the Colts will be playing this weekend, also in the
city I happen to be in right now. So I
felt compelled to go, especially since I was on WIBC
Now yesterday when I was talking about this with Kylon.
I mentioned that the Rockets were good, which I knew
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because the community that I live in is demonstrating to
me in a lot of conversations how the Rockets are
a good basketball team this year. And I also assumed
the Pacers were good, but I haven't been paying attention
to very much NBA. To be candid, I was very
wrong about that, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Not trying to be mean. I know the Pacers are
an important team.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I think they have games that happened within our family
of radio and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But they're bad at basketball. This is this was atrocious.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I think they're the worst team in the NBA, as
I found out last night watching the game, and part
of that, I'm sure is because key players are hurt,
so it makes it harder to be, you know, as
good as you were last year. But truthfully, this game
was ugly and the fact that Kevin Durant can put
thirty points you know, on the board as easily as
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he did, set out a decent amount of the second
half of the game, and actually all of the Rockets
starters can sit out a decent amount of the second
half of that game, and they still won by six
or seven points, and they were winning by twenty, you know,
into the third quarter.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I think it was.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Sad because I went there, I didn't know who to
cheer for. I didn't cheer for either team. I didn't wear,
you know, any sort of clothing for either team because
I was going to decide there how things went. And
part of me did start to cheer for the Pacers
as the faux version of the comeback happened because I
felt bad for them. It was kind of like watching
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the little league team that shouldn't you know, be playing anymore.
They probably need to go back and practice a little bit.
And this sounds overly mean to a professional basketball team,
so I don't mean this quite as badly as it sounds,
but you felt bad for them the way you feel
bad for the little league team that doesn't win many
games at least I did watching this game last night,
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and I was there in person in Houston to watch
the Pacers, you know again struggle, which was sack because
like just last year they were a playoff team. So
this this seems And Kylin, what were you telling me
about some of the posters in Indianapolis that are saying
something about this team on.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Some of the buildings across like just going through the streets,
it says remixed for now, which is kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And to the young, to the to the not young
people out there, when you say something like remixed, that
means that what exactly what are they trying to say
with the billboard?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Is that a young person slang?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well, I feel like it's leaning towards the We know
this isn't gonna be like the team, but yeah, just
like making it through the year. I think we all
admitted at the beginning that this was a by year.
We're just gonna Yeah, We're happy with anyone that we've
gotten and to beat the Bulls twice, we'll take it.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Hey, there you go.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, to have six wins, and two of them against
Chicago that's fine.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Well, and I actually was a Bulls fan as a kid,
And now I don't know what I am a fan of.
And I don't know why the NBA specifically is something
that I lost interest in. It might be the political
stuff that people talk about. It also just might be
the changes to the game. I don't like the fact
that there's no hand checking, and I don't like the
fact that, you know, the version of basketball they play
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today is heavily reliant on great three point shooters being
at every position on the team, even though I actually
used to shoot threes when I played basketball. Oh and
you know what, I'm going to brag about something, Kylan,
and it's not It's not a deserving brag. Anytime I've
ever talked about this in radio, it sounds way cooler
than it is, even though it's true. And if you
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asked me to, like, you know, go out on the
basketball court and prove to you that I'm as skilled
as I'm going to make it sound like I am,
I doubt I can do it. But when I went
to Holy Cross in South Bend, Indiana, I went to
college there, I played on their basketball team, the Holy
Cross basketball team, which is part of, you know, a
junior college circuit, which then I think even somehow at
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times obviously feels a connection.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
To Notre Dame, even though they're nowhere near as good
as Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And now they recruit players and stuff, and I think
they're actually fairly good within the junior college basketball division
they play in. When I went to Holy Cross, they
had just launched the basketball team, so I walked on
both years because everybody walked on.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Every part of the team.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Was people who showed up at a random tryout. And
I think even the first year, we weren't actually in
a league, so mostly we played like men's teams in
the YMCA. Like it was terrible, But I technically can
say I played college basketball.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I had a pair of college basketball.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Shorts, a jersey, all the things, and I showed up
and I played games connected to a university that now
does much better. So I just love saying that that
I played college basketball in Indiana, the mecca of basketball
in the country. I know, did I make that sound
as unimpressive as it actually is or did it still
(16:19):
sound kind of impressive.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Hey, you'll take the wins where you can. That's okay.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, we were the Indianapolis Pacers of college basketball at
the time that I was playing on it today this
year's version of the Indianapolis Pacers. Although we did have
a few players who could dunk, which is sad that
most of us could not do it. That's probably not
good by the time you get to college. But a
few of us could so that I was not one
of them, but that was cool to see the people
who could do that. And you know, lob the ball
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to Matt Smallbones is the actual name of one of
the players on the team. I hope that guy still
lives in Indiana because if somehow he's listening to WIBC
today wherever he is in his life, I just know
that I still think that you're one of the best
basketball players ever was on the same team with, you know,
and I'm impressed Matt Smallbones probably could have played on
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an actual junior college basketball team and not the one
he happened to be on. And I love that I
went full name there again because hopefully he is listening
somewhere out there, somebody tells him about it. Someone who
knows him is probably going to tell him, hey man,
you were mentioned in WIBC today. I don't really know why.
I don't really know how that was going or what
was going on there. I remember when we played Bethel.
(17:27):
Bethel is a pretty good college in Indiana for basketball,
and they destroyed us. They ripped us a new one,
and I remember the only reason that that game was
fun was Matt Smallbones dunked on that team, and we
all went crazy on the bench when he did that.
Because we were losing by like I think, thirty points.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It was not a good.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Situation, but hey, if you get one dunk, you feel
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Better that way, and I guess that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Plus, we had a five foot seven guy I can't
remember his name that could also dunk, and that's not
good that I don't remember his name, but yeah, he could,
I the Matt.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Maybe his name was also Matt's. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Anyway, I've now talked about Indiana and basketball, so I
feel like if anybody was complaining that I didn't cover
enough things in the world of the state in which
this show is actually aired or the city in which
it's aired, hey man, I just crushed it. Just none
of it was politically relevant to the state but all
of it was about the state. So really there, I
think it's a win. Is that a win, Kylon or No?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, if that's the case, let's just talk about IU
football too.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Sure, well that's coming up on Thursday, and that's going
to be incredible. They actually seem like they might be good,
all right, like really really good, like they could win
a championship. Good, Let's take a break, let's do some stuff,
and we'll come back and just I U football the
rest of the half hour.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Probably maybe not.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Craig Collins filling in on the Kendall and Casey Show,
ninety three WIBC. This is the Kendall and Casey Show,
ninety three WIBC. My name is Craig Collins, filling in.
I was kid about doing a deep dive in IU football.
Although last year was a tad disappointing the way that
IU went out of the playoff, this year, it feels
(19:08):
like they might truly have a shot at winning a
national championship, which would be insane.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But I look now I'm talking about it.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
It would be insane for IU to that quickly go
from being one of the worst college teams in all
of football to potentially winning a championship. It's truly amazing
the changes that have been done there and the likelihood
for IU to be a good football team for a
while moving forward. Now, even as a college football is
a tough place to stay good because of how often
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players are leaving on how much of the changes to
the college game have impacted the way that teams retain
even talent of the side standard the transfer portal and
move somewhere else. But anyway, it's just interesting that's out
there that'll happen. On Thursday, I did a deep dive
before the show into the biggest political stories of.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Twenty twenty five within Indiana.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
This is something that I did have pre prep for
today that I feel like maybe I should do. There's
a few different ones that were interesting to me on
this list, but far and away, and if you tried
to look other places for the most significant stories being
talked about within the state in the world of politics,
redistricting way above everything else, and the Indiana Senate eventually
(20:22):
kiboshed the idea to redistrict the state. And I know
there's a lot of people, I believe some of them
on this show and on the station who are a
fan of the idea that the redistricting didn't happen, And
I bet you they have really good reasons for that.
I'm not going to speak for them, but I bet
their reasons are good. But I will tell you that
from the periphery, from the outside looking in, as you
(20:43):
would like to not have President Trump be a lame
duck president for the last two of the four years
he's in office in his second term, after a break
in between those two terms, when you want that as
badly as I think a lot of conservatives do, because
the alternative is nothing gets done for two years and
then somebody else on either side of the aisle tries
(21:05):
to be the next president. At jd Vance seems to
have the best shot at it now, but who knows.
When you look at all that from the outside, you
wish that we could have done more things, we being
Conservatives or Republicans, to retain control of the House of
the Senate and to continue to have the ability to
actually get things done in the world of any sort
(21:27):
of administration agenda that Trump would like to accomplish. And
here in Texas where I happen to live, which provides
me an even greater I think context to the differences
between the two states. Texas did the thing they did
the redistricting. It went all the way to the Supreme Court.
We thought it was going to get blocked for a
little bit. Then it actually is going to be allowed.
Although who knows there will be a case not even
(21:50):
about Texas's redistricting that might wind up determining if the
redistricting lasts or if it just winds up in place
for a midterm election.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
All this is stuff happening supremeport level.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But the question I think to me when I watched
the way Indiana did it, was why, like, why not
go ahead and fight fire with fire? Democrats do this. Illinois,
the state just simply a little bit that stone's throw
away from Indianapolis where I used to live in Chicago
for a long time, has a ridiculous map. If you
look at Illinois map, you see how much of the
(22:24):
state is carved through places like Chicago, so that all
of the suburbs and even well beyond the suburbs can
be influenced by that one very populous city. The same
holds true in other parts of Illinois, where you have
some you know, pretty democratic locations around a whole lot
of very not democratic. You know, rural areas. Indiana feels
(22:47):
the same way. Indianapolis feels the same way to me,
and yet they overwhelmingly vote conservative already, which is good
and it's helpful and it gets you further, you know,
down the finish line of getting things done. But that's
truthfully all that politics is right now. I think at
the national level, to me, unfortunately, Democrats more so than Republicans.
(23:09):
And I can validate that argument, I promise you. I
think things like the fight over the Speaker of the
House demonstrate how Republicans are not hive minded. They're not
unilaterally thinking the way that Democrats do, although I'm sure
it's still much more uniform than it was back in
the day. But nonetheless, I say this the way that
politics works at that level now. It's so we don't
(23:32):
care about doing things that are good for society. We
care about our team getting points that if Democrats do
wind up taking back control of the House and or
the Senate, nothing will happen, nothing will get done at all. Look,
I've said this before and I'll say it again. Barack
Obama did more than any other president in my lifetime
(23:54):
to consolidate power within the White House. They accuse that
of being a Trump thing all the time. They're like, ah, Trump,
He's so terrible and wants to be a king. But
when Obama was in office, one of the big things
he did, through executive orders and everything else, was consolidate
power in the executive branch. Now, some people would say
the reason he did that is his house. His Senate
(24:15):
was also gridlocked. They also forced him quote unquote, which
I don't believe, but this is something people would say
they forced him to go that road. But we've seen
that more and more with anyone.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Who winds up in the office of president.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
The amount of executive orders they passed within the first
few days of being in office. Even the auto pen
president in Biden did a bunch of that. And so
I really wish that Indiana had done more to potentially
redistrict at state and not fight this. And I think
I said it on a show filling in for Tony Katz.
The reason I believe Indiana didn't do this is pride.
(24:49):
I really think a lot of those politicians don't like
being told what to do, and then they pushed throughout
whatever system they're in to tell the other people we
don't like to be told what to do because it
would have been when it could have been a win.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Is what I would say.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
If you create a few more seats in a place
that is easily described as predominantly conservative, the state is
a very conservative state, and so it would be a
true reflection of the majority of the state to send
more conservatives to Washington, which.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Is what I say here.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Is it a true reflection of places like Indianapolis or
Houston where I live for Texas, No, it's not a
true reflection of those cities, But those cities aren't really
a good reflection of the totality of the state. It
just so happens that a whole lot of people in
a very small area believe something very different than the
rest of the state believes. All Right, Another big story
(25:37):
out there as far as political news in Indiana this
year was the deep Fake video and Indiana Lieutenant Governor
Micah beckw That was a big, big story. Representative Craig
Haggard's wife was involved in this, and it's sort of
horrible and awful to think that we're at a point
(25:57):
in society where these sort of things might become the norm.
And I don't mean politically, I mean in general, the
amount of AI and the capability of AI to do
pretty much anything. I mean, South Park is a show
that has taken a bunch of shots at Trump recently.
It's probably a show that a whole lot of conservatives
no longer like. And I get that they did an
(26:19):
episode of their show though recently, which was much more
specific to AI and deep fakes and craziness there, and
it was commentary on the society in which we currently live.
There is a ridiculous amount of this. So the fact
that this story was one of the biggest ones in
politics is sad in a lot of ways. But I
do think the attempt to cover up what was going on,
(26:42):
whether people were innocent or guilty themselves. You know, if
you're at the top of a chain and you are
innocent of the crime whatever, I know it's not a
crime per se, but you're being accused of doing anything bad.
If you're at the top of the food chain and
you try to hide it, you try to distract from
it instead of addressing it, it does make you look
(27:02):
guilty too.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
It's just the way that that works.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
So again I'm not saying who I think was or
wasn't an accomplice in the ridiculousness of that story or
the terribleness of that story. But I will say that
just from my opinion, you know, you have to Nobody
does this in politics, which is why it.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Would be so jarring.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You'd have to actually authentically just you know, tell us
what happened, tell us the people who were involved, be transparent.
I guess I'll say this because I know this projection
also looked forward to twenty twenty six and how Braun
might use executive orders to get more things done. I
think the American people in the world of politics are
(27:44):
so desperate for authenticity. And I've said this before about
why Trump is actually popular. Trump says and does things,
whether you think they're mean, the mean tweets and all
that stuff that I think he would say or do
wherever he was, if he was in front of a
camera or not. And people like that. They like the
authenticity of that. They like believing that the person they
(28:05):
see on television is the same person behind the scenes
getting things done. And we don't have much of that
in politics at all. And I think people are so
desperate for that that if you gave us a little
more of that and a little bit less of the
other crap, that there would be a likelihood that people
would be tremendously popular in the world. Just some other
quick things to run through as far as stuff that
(28:27):
was on this story before I take a break. Property
tax changes I was a big deal in Indiana, of course,
a big deal in some places other than Indiana too.
Property taxes I think are always going to be a
win with the American people to say we're trying to
give more money back to you.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
However you do it now.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Granted, as you do that, there might be ways where
you start actually adding additional taxes. I think there was
a way to allow local income tax to become a
more significant hit on your pocketbook. So that's not good,
even as the property tax changes I might have been
good for a lot of people. And then finally, one
last one mentioned was the death of Charlie Kirk and
(29:04):
how it impacted Indiana specifically, how college campuses at Ball State,
Purdue IU, wherever it might be responded and their turning point.
USA branches responded to the tragic murder of a person
that was an absolutely very significant individual in the world
of politics and probably someone who would have been very important,
(29:26):
and I imagine Turning Point USA will still be important
in upcoming elections. So tremendous loss, I think for the
political world. But also it seemed to a lot of
people in the state of Indiana who dealt with the
fallout of that person's death. And also I think, and
this was a challenge that came from the tragedy to
(29:49):
have more people be outspoken, and I think that is happening,
and I definitely think in places like Indiana and some
of the colleges that I just mentioned a second ago,
the likelihood of people being more comfortable being vocal is
higher than in some other crazy states, simple neighbors just
to you know, the west of Indiana who seem to
want to shout down these opinions more at a state level,
(30:11):
being in a republican state and being in an organization
like Turning Point USA, I think people might underestimate the
value of that for young people and young voters compared
to being in Turning Point USA, in the middle of
a Chicago, you know city, or in the city of
Chicago or suburb of Chicago at one of those colleges.
All Right, we'll take a break. We'll do some fun stuff.
(30:33):
We probably promise. I know it's the holiday. I know
I like being lighthearted, so we'll do that after this.
Craig Collins filling in Kendall and Casey ninety three WIBC.
This is the Kendall and Casey Show, ninety three WIBC.
My name is Craig Collins, filling in producer Kylon on
special assignment. I think playing songs that the chat is singing?
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Are you telling me that the chat is doing a
sing along out of some of this stuff?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
They were earlier they were singing Lie Girl by the Temptations,
But this is a.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Good I gotta ask. I got to ask.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
How can you tell that they're singing in the chat?
Do they like do the singing somehow with the words,
with their typing? Are they typing I'm singing this?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Sometimes they'll put the emoji with the music notes, but
right now it's just been like one of the comments
was I've got sunshine on a cloudy day?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Oh I sing? All right?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Well, I want the chat to prove that they're actually singing.
They can send us voice messages somehow and we'll play those.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Now we won't.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Oh, we probably won't play, but we might who knows.
But you can send us audio of you singing, and
then I'll believe it. Then I'll think it's real. I
saw this. This is one of my favorite places on
social media. Am I the jerk is what I describe
it as on Reddit. It's actually the A word. And
I'm pretty sure I can say the A word on
the radio.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I just don't do it. But am I the A word?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
People go there, they ask who's the jerk in a situation?
Me or somebody else, and they tell a little story.
A woman went to this platform and she said that
she's curious if she's the jerk or not because her
husband refuses to tell her what he makes at his job.
The husband doesn't want his wife to know his salary
and has some money somewhere in some bank account that
(32:17):
she can't have access to, and she's wondering if she's
the jerk, which felt horrible to read, to be honest
with you, because of course she's not. Of course he's
the jerk here. He says that he wants to save
the money or he wants to know do good things
with it, and he's more of the saver. She's more
of the spender, like he has excuses. But the reason
(32:38):
I thought this was so ridiculous is that it would
never fly in my home to try to hide some
amount of money from my wife, Like that's a crazy
thing to say out loud and to do. She would
have access to every penny that comes through this system
in any way she needs to, because of course she does.
And of course this seems wrong to keep that kind
(33:00):
of information from the person you're you're married to, even
like every year doing the taxes, you should be able
to know the amount of money you made as a couple,
because the taxes is not something that the husband just
gets to do.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
The wife should also be allowed.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
To do them. So it's just kind of insane. Do
you want to react to the story, Kylin.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I'm curious how old they are and if the age
makes a difference, because I know some generations they didn't
talk about finances and that's obviously very important nowadays. Sure,
it's one of the recommendations before you get married, you
need to talk about your finances and what that would
look like and if you're going to mesh.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Oh yeah, they said they've been married for nine years,
so I don't know the age of the people and
it could be a second marriage or something. But I'm
actually guessing they're not, you know, terribly, you know, beyond
the generation of people who look for information or advice online.
It's a specific generation that usually goes to the internet
to get advice in this.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
But again, I just think it's kind of terrible that
someone would think that it might be okay. Like the
thing that I feel bad about when I read the
am I the jerk posts occasionally is that the person
who's writing it thinks they could actually be the jerk,
you know, like they actually think it. Maybe it's debatable
on what time we're on. This one's not debatable. Tell
(34:16):
her how much money you make, you giant, giant jerk,
and do it now, and then, you know, do whatever
you can to save it if you really think she's
going to spend it all. But I think that's a
bridge you cross after you get there, not beforehand. But
this is just it was crazy to me to read,
how you know, unaware the person was of if this
is a normal thing. And I think I always filter
(34:37):
it through my own relationship and how mad my wife
would be at me if I did the thing that
someone else is.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Talking about, and this would be a big problem.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
This would be a big issue, although like for a
little bit, it'd be a surprise, like if I was
making way more money than the wife knew. I think
there'd be a few minutes where she'd be like, oh
my god, that's great, and then also then beat me.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
With a shoe.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
All right, so that's true. It's actually it's a thing. Yeah,
the child Okay, you know, you know the exact reference.
My wife is surgical with a chankola. It is incredible.
I think she could hit someone outside a window in
a car driving away, you know, in like a separate state.
I think she's that good at it, all right, other
things out there. I saw this someone wrote on a
(35:17):
self help place, my job is making me depressed?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Is it okay? Or is it selfish to quit?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I have a different opinion about this than say, maybe
some in my age bracket would have you can quit
your job for any reason.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Go ahead, do whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
But yeah, it could potentially be selfish to leave a gig,
especially if you're I think this person's in a relationship
without having a replacement gig lined up, because it's going
to cause a lot of issues financially for the family.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
So yes, it absolutely could.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Be selfish to forego money you're making in order to
you know, not be making that money. But if it's
something where it's as bad as this person is saying
for their mental health, you probably should be looking for
another job. You shouldn't be staying there regardless. But I
don't think that just quitting outright before you have the
other gig can be described as anything other than selfish
(36:10):
if a family is depending on that money.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Do you want to weigh in on this one, Kylan
or no, no notes.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
No, it's for real, you shouldn't stay at the job
if it's not helpful for you.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
But yes you should not definitely quit right Yeah, but
you shouldn't quit right away without another gig lined up.
At least do even if it's not the same money.
Get a job doing something that you can leave the
job that's making you depressed. All right, let's hit no notes,
thank you, We're taking a break. A lot coming up.
Craig Collins filling in Kendall and Casey ninety three WIBC
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