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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Dan O'Malley along with
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Trey Trenholm and Jerry Caldwell. Today is Fred Day, April fourth,
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twenty twenty five. Congratulations, you have made it to the
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end of the week. I'm happy about that. However, there
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is something looming here inside the treehouse that we need
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to discuss. And take a deep breath because this is
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going to be very difficult for me. Trey, Jerry, do
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you know the most dangerous county in Texas for a broadcaster?
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It's Hunt County, northeast of Dallas. Hunt County is the
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most dangerous county in Texas for a broadcaster. Not because
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of crime or anything actually dangerous. It's because it's impossible
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to say Hunt County so many times that you don't
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accidentally switch the C in County to replace the H
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in Hunt. Think about what that switcheroo might do when
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it said out loud. Look, just saying that sentence out
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loud finds me on the precipice of disaster because it's
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a major FCC infraction to say that word on the
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public airwaves. Trey uses it all the time in his
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personal life, but even he knows not to say it
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on the air. Now, knowing all of that, this may
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be the most challenging read of my entire career. Are
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you ready?
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Oh yeah, here we go.
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Twenty one people were arrested at an active cockfight in
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Hunt County. I say again, for the sake of sensationalism,
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that twenty one people were arrested at a cockfight in
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Hunt County. I did it. I didn't say the word yes. Ah. Now,
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keep in mind, I'll probably say it some other time
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in here. I have done that, by the way, I've
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done that at least twice on two different stations. I
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did it once on k l L. I was trying
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to remember the call. I was trying to remember the
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call letters because they changed so many times. I didn't
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want k l L I Live one oh five three,
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which was CBS Radio at the time. I believe it
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was during a weather report and there was sort of
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that was at the Eagle. Oh okay, oh, you're right. Yes,
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this time, I'm even giving a weather warning and I
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called Hunt County County that was a weather alert.
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And we didn't pick it, and none of us picked
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it up.
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That's how natural it sounds. Yeah, I mean it really does.
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When you say Hunt County and you just say it
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repeatedly in a very relaxed setting, like the treehouse is.
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On occasion, it's gonna you're gonna slip up and it's
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gonna be County. So yeah, the weather alert at the Eagle,
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that was when I accidentally called Hunt County. The other thing?
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What was it then? When we were at CBS Radio
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at Live one O five three? Do you remember that
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screw up?
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Like?
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How did I get that switched up?
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Just? I think it was just a story with Hunt
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County in it.
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Okay, Well, I go back to my original point, which
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is there has never been a more dangerous news article
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to share on the radio than twenty one people arrested
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at a cock fight in Hunt County. Every time I
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say it, I could feel it bubbling up inside of me.
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Or you're aware of it. The harder it is, too, right?
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Oh way, wait, way harder, Thank you, Jim. There's two
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hard seas in that sentence. And I know I know you, Trey.
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You sent that story on purpose to me, not because
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of its newsworthiness, but because you wanted to see if
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I would screw up and not call it Hunt County.
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I of you're absolutely correct.
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I know you.
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I've known you for twenty years. I know I know
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what your motives are.
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Just the cock fighting in Hunt County.
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See, even you're doing it right there. The only thing
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you can do to try to avoid it is to
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overenunciate the letters that you're trying not to switch, because
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you're trying not to switch the CU in County in
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front of the hunt of Hunt. In order to do that,
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you've got to over emphossize those sounds. So you have
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to say I almost said I almost said it right there.
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You have to say Hunt County. You can't just say
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Hunt County because then you're like that. That's where the
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slip up occurs. If you get too relaxed that H
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and the C will switch and you've said something very
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very bad. Now, keep in mind the podcast version of
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this show. You can say that all day. It doesn't matter,
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but we try to radio at it the entirety of
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the show so we don't have to go back and
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bleep unnecessarily. I would just like to pat myself on
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the back here by saying it has been six minutes
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and I have said Hunt County numerous times. I have
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said twenty one people arrested at a cockfight in Hunt
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County numerous times, and I have yet to screw it up.
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Yay me.
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If I accomplish nothing else today, I will have not
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said the bad word version of Hunt County. And I
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also made my bed. So look at me go here
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you go, gold stars all around. Can't hold me down?
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Thank you, Jared, Yes we do. That is something the
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Treehouse is missing. We need a gold star chart in here.
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And I'm first.
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And congratulations you got through it saying hunt fighting and
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oh let's vote in Festo.
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He is Trede Trendholm. That is Jerry Caldwell and today
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is Friday, April fourth, twenty twenty five. It is a
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Texas Legislature year. They only convene every two years, but
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it always feels like they're making news. But when they convene,
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that's when the news really starts hitting All the things
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that they're working on in an attempt to make the
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state of Texas a better place for us all unless
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you're poor. Because apparently being poor isn't punishment enough. So
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the Texas Senate has already passed a bill that would
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ban food stamp recipients from buying things like soda chips
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and candy. Now, I would like to point out that
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years ago I was on board with this kind of
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a thing. It's like, no, I shouldn't. I shouldn't have
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to pay for that type of stuff with my tax dollars.
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But as I've gotten older, I've gotten a little more empathetic.
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But let me give you a little more insight into this.
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The Texas Senate passed a bill that would ban snap
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food recipients from buying things like soda chips and candy.
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The bill now heads to the Texas House for consideration. Now,
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there are two side to this story. One side is
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I don't feel like my tax dollars should be spent
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on someone buying soda chips and candy. That's not necessary
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to live. They shouldn't. My money shouldn't go towards that.
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The other side of that would be, well, I'm poor,
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am I not allowed to have something that tastes good. Trey,
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where do you fall on this? You are a resident
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conservative inside the treehouse, I'm a I'm a well known
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fence writer. So I look at both sides and and
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I'll decide later.
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I don't. My deal isn't about the tax dollar is
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so much. Is just the the growing rate of obesity
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and and things like that. The health concerns are to
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me more a better reason why to do this. But
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I mean, it's we need sweeping changes across the board,
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not just you know. And and I'm with you, I don't.
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I hate the fact that you feel like you're penalizing
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uh poor people.
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Yeah, and that and that that's what it feels like.
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And I think that at the core, that's why a
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lot of people get on it. I think they see
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a bill like this and say, I don't want my
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tax dollars being spent on junk food because that's going
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to make you even more unhealthy. And also I think
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there is an aspect to it that people say I
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don't want my tax dollars being spent on junk food
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because hang on, just lost my train of thought. Hang On,
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I lost it. I'll get it dollars, junk food, tax dollars,
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junk food.
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Hang on, my brain has spent on It.
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Is a broken garbage heap on fire. You ever seen
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you ever seen a pile of tires on fire. That's
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what my brain feels like right now, especially because I
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had a really solid point and it was for the
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other side, and now I've ruined it. Let me read
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more story. Maybe I'll figure it out.
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Uh.
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Texas Senator Mas Middleston from Galveston is the author of
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the junk food crackdown. He says, the goal is not
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to punish the poor. Okay, now I remember what it is.
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Uh.
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One aspect of not wanting your tax dollars being spent
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on junk food, is I lost it again? Health, No,
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there's another There was another tire flare up somewhere back
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in here. Hang on, all right, man, go back to
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reading the story. It'll come back to me.
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Uh.
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He says. The goal of the bill is not to
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punish the poor. He says, items, it's a deterrence. That's
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what it is. I don't want my tax dollars being
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spent on this junk food, so therefore it's an incentive
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for you to get off of the food stamp program.
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You want good you want good food, stop, you know,
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go out and get a job. I think that's the
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mentality a lot of people have that are in support
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of that bill. But out the fire, no wa and
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go back to normal stuff. Anyway, The author of the
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bill says the goal is not to punish the poor.
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He says items like soda, energy drinks, candy, potato chips,
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corn chips, cookies, they don't just lack nutritional value, they
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are bad for you. And another Senator, Nathan Johnson, says
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it's really hard for people to make good health decisions
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when all they've seen their whole lives is junk food.
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So I'm not entirely sure then, how this is going
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to help other than them telling you, if you're on
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food stamps, we're going to force you to make better
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food options. The problem with that is this, if you
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want to have a law in place that actually helps
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people make better health related decisions, then you need to
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make health food cheaper. You need to make healthy food
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cheaper than the soda, the chip, the candy, and the crap.
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Because unless you can do that, those snap benefits don't
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go as far ask anyone that's tried to buy grilled chicken,
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that's just tried to buy chicken breast. It's more expensive
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than the other cuts of chicken, all these other just
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go shopping train those this. You and I've been trying
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to eat healthy for years. It's more expensive to eat
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health So if you want people on food stamps to
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make better decisions, then you need to find a way
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to make the healthy stuff cheaper for all of us.
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That's my soapbox for the day.
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Also, I would like to pose if there is an
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issue with people's diets, then I would like to pose
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that that's more of an education issue, and you cannot
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educate them by denying them the ability eats. I'm a hedonist,
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so you need to be able to have potato chips
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with your sandwich. There's nothing wrong with drinking the occasional soda.
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We all know that there's nothing wrong with, you know,
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consuming these things moderately. If there's a problem, it needs
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to be addressed somewhere else.
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It's not just the poor people that need to make
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better food choices. It's our entire society needs to make
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better choices.
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Yeah, you're you're preaching moderation to a society that does
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not know that. You know, we are absolutely make it bigger,
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make it, you know, faster, make it stronger.
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And honestly, putting potato chips on your sandwiches is the
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epitome of that. It's gluttonous and delicious.
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Mm hm.