Charlie discusses poll results, male workforce trends, and trade skills.

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Charlie James: All right, we still got the poll going on. And yes, it's completely unscientific, but it's over at our text line: Who won last night's debate? Text your choice to 800-905-0989. Let me go to Lynn in Easley. Lynn, welcome, how are you? Lynn: I'm good, how are you doing, Charlie? Charlie James: I'm fantastic. What's on your mind? Lynn: How do—how do you like my Southern accent? Charlie James: [laughter] I love it! It's great! It's great. I love Southern accents. What's going on? Lynn: Oh, I—I just wanted to say I love your show, and I love your impersonations, so don't stop. But also, I wanted to comment on the reason men are not go—well, I mean, boys are not going to work, because they're staying home watching videos and smoking weed. Charlie James: Yeah. Lynn: That's my personal uh, belief. [laughter] Charlie James: Did you know this, Lynn? There was a new study out just a couple of days ago: marijuana use has now more than cigarette use. For like the first—for the first time in history! Lynn: Oh, I believe it! Charlie James: Oh, wow. Lynn: That's—that's crazy. Charlie James: It is crazy! It is. Lynn: And they say that you can go into psychosis just from uh, smoking too much of that. I don't know, now... Charlie James: Well, let me tell you something: what—what—what we know as—as marijuana, that's not what these kids got these days. It's completely different, I appreciate it. I mean, it just—it never smelled like that before! But now, man, you go downtown... hell, you go to just a—a stoplight, and you're like, "WOAH!" There are people out there operating 3,000-pound, minimum, vehicles, and they're high as a kite! Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah, we got—we got some problems in this country. We got some problems with culture. We got young men sitting on their duffs, they're—they're playing video games. There... men—this is crazy—men aren't dating anymore. People aren't dating anymore! They—they just—they don't—they cannot go up to a woman and start a conversation. Yeah, they can't do—there was soft skills, small talk, they—they just can't do it. They're afraid—they're afraid of them! [laughter] Yeah, that's it! JJ said they're afraid of rejection. Now, listen: I'm no Casanova. I'm no Casanova here. You know, I—you know... But I've done all right in my life, especially with the last one, which I just—I mean, grand slam, home run with the lovely Miss Sheila! Out of the park! People always look at me and go, "How...?" And I know! I know when you guys see us out in public, I know you're sitting there going, "How in the heck did he get her?" [laughter] Well, don't you worry about it. Don't you worry about it! I did! [laughter] I did, and now she's all mine! That's right. That's right. So, what's that line... what was—I can't remember the movie, it was like, "Why you want to marry me anyway?" "So I can kiss you whenever I want to!" That's right. So, young men, they've lost it! I don't—I don't know how they think they're going to function in society. They'd—they would rather—and this is—this is no lie—they would rather be in a quote-unquote "relationship" with a—with a ChatGPT chatbot than a real woman! That's pathetic! That's—I mean, that is horrible! So, [laughter] JJ said they never disagree with you, yeah. [laughter] Yeah! Well, get used to that! Get—that's a, yeah, that's what life's all about! So, but our young guys today, I mean, good... Somebody said we ought to—and I don't, this is something I don't have a problem with, really. You know, get out of high school: one year, two years, military service? I don't really have a problem with that. I don't—or something! Do something! Good gracious! I mean, just be—be something, learn something. There was a story the other day about the trades, and how young people are really doing extremely well by not—and that's the thing: they're—they're all going to, you know, these colleges and universities, and what are they learning? Well, they're learning nothing! No ...

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