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Election Day Is a Great Day for Democrats to Save the Party · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start
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  Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to the Wes Carroll Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, third day of November Election Day on this
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  Speaker 2: midterm 2026. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. Before we
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  Speaker 2: kind of close out our pre-Election Day coverage, and I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's Election Day, but it's The voting shall begin
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  Speaker 2: soon from where I'm sitting. Not that it hasn't already
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  Speaker 2: begun in, you know, the states that have early voting.
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  Speaker 2: And I just say to you, if you're not an
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  Speaker 2: early voting person, you know, you know what you got
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  Speaker 2: to do today. You got to get in there and
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  Speaker 2: do it. Now, I'm not one of those big, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's election day. Everybody go vote. I'm not one of
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  Speaker 2: those people. I'm a firm believer that if you're just
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  Speaker 2: kind of willy nilly and you saw something on Comedy
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  Speaker 2: Central or You watch The Daily Show and Jon Stewart
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  Speaker 2: told you what to vote. I don't think that's necessarily
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  Speaker 2: grounds for going out and voting. You're right, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: not one of those, hey, everybody go vote. Not voting
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  Speaker 2: is blah, blah, blah. Like, I'm not one of those people.
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  Speaker 2: I think if you believe in securing the union, then yes,
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  Speaker 2: get in there and vote. If you think it's time
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  Speaker 2: to hand things off to extremists and communists and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people who stand next to people on stage that believe
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  Speaker 2: that we deserve 9-11, then I think you should just
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  Speaker 2: stay home. I don't think you should vote today. That's
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  Speaker 2: how I feel about it, because a lot of people died.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people died to preserve what we got,
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  Speaker 2: or to secure what we got back in the very beginning.
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  Speaker 2: Before we jump into all that, though, I did want
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  Speaker 2: to just quickly mention, you haven't heard me, you haven't
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  Speaker 2: heard me, that T and Hurd, Kind of made a
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  Speaker 2: different word there. Got to be clear. Haven't heard me.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of did it again there, didn't it? Talk about
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  Speaker 2: the Nutcracker in just a bit, but we have gotten
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  Speaker 2: into the rehearsal phase of things. I have met my
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  Speaker 2: new Paula Chanel's as the mother ginger in the Nutcracker
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  Speaker 2: now for the eighth time this year. I did not,
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  Speaker 2: was not able to go to my rehearsals, but it's
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  Speaker 2: one of the first times I've had to miss because
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  Speaker 2: of health reasons, because I, um, I was sick over
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  Speaker 2: the weekend and stilts was not going to be a
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  Speaker 2: good thing for me while I was under the weather.
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  Speaker 2: I am starting to feel better. It started to feel
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  Speaker 2: a little bit better for me yesterday. So God willing,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back for rehearsals this coming week with the girls.
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  Speaker 2: But this is your chance to see me in the Nutcracker.
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  Speaker 2: If it's part of your annual tradition, I look forward
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  Speaker 2: to seeing you at the Nutcracker at the River Center.
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  Speaker 2: in December. And we have our shows all set for you.
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  Speaker 2: And I've talked before about the way the shows work.
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  Speaker 2: And we get in for Tech Week leading up to
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  Speaker 2: the open to the public shows, which are December 12th
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  Speaker 2: and 13th at the River Center. We do have a
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  Speaker 2: show on the 11th. It is a And if your
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  Speaker 2: kids have talked about, hey, we're going to go to
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  Speaker 2: the Nutcracker as part of a field trip, that would
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  Speaker 2: be the show that they're talking about for Friday the 11th.
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  Speaker 1: And then the.
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  Speaker 2: Evening of the 11th, there is also a show that
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  Speaker 2: will take place. And it is not open to the public,
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  Speaker 2: but there are some people who will be attending that show.
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  Speaker 2: And again, I suppose if you are a part of
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  Speaker 2: the people who are invited to that show, you already
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  Speaker 2: know or you will find out. And then the show's
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  Speaker 2: open to the public December 12th and 13th. So looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to seeing you there. And I want to remind you,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm again in the role of the Mother Ginger.
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  Speaker 2: I am on stilts in a big giant dress with
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  Speaker 2: the girls that come out of the dress and dance around.
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  Speaker 2: And we have a good time. I promise you it's
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  Speaker 2: the best five minutes you're going to see on any
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  Speaker 2: stage anywhere in the country. That's what I aim for anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there's a better five minutes somewhere on Broadway. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about in Columbus. I can't say that
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  Speaker 2: because the rest of the show is good. There's a
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  Speaker 2: bittersweet component to the show this year because some of
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  Speaker 2: the girls the first year that I was mother ginger.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the girls who were polys for the very
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  Speaker 2: first time that I did it are seniors this year,
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  Speaker 2: and this is their last show as part of the school.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a little sad for me. Um, and they
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  Speaker 2: are fantastic. They're just so good. They were, they were
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  Speaker 2: in a significant roles last year. And there was a
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  Speaker 2: moment with one of the girls last year on stage.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't get to see the entire show because
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  Speaker 2: I'm backstage. My makeup takes about anywhere from 60 to
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  Speaker 2: 90 minutes, depending on, you know, how, like the way
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  Speaker 2: the process works. So I'm backstage getting ready and I
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  Speaker 2: don't really see a lot of the first act, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't get to see a lot of the end
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  Speaker 2: of the show just because of where I have to
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  Speaker 2: be on the stage. I have a little perch that
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  Speaker 2: I sit on. But there's a moment in the show
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  Speaker 2: last year where it moved me, and I got teary
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  Speaker 2: because it was one of those girls from that first
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  Speaker 2: year that I did the show, and of course she's
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  Speaker 2: back this year. She's in a different role this year.
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  Speaker 2: But it was just so good, and all I could
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  Speaker 2: think about was how good she was in the role
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  Speaker 2: last year. And she's on to something else. She'll have
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  Speaker 2: another very significant role this year. And then the other
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  Speaker 2: girls that I have been working with over the years,
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  Speaker 2: just excited to see them kind of close out their
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  Speaker 2: time there for that. Other girls that I work with, though,
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  Speaker 2: they continue to work their way through the ranks. So
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  Speaker 2: this is, you know, I'll have some more seniors next year. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: get your tickets through rivercenter.org, rivercenterboxoffice.com. Or work your way
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  Speaker 2: to getting your tickets through thecolumbusballet.org. That's what you need
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  Speaker 2: to do. Don't go just to Google because you're going
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  Speaker 2: to find that the tickets will be marked up. People
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  Speaker 2: grab them or they don't necessarily grab them. If you
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  Speaker 2: go to one of the brokers online, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: sell you the tickets for an upcharge, a ridiculous upcharge,
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  Speaker 2: and then they're going to go buy the tickets that
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  Speaker 2: you want. for what the tickets are actually selling for,
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  Speaker 2: and then they'll, of course, get you your tickets for
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  Speaker 2: significantly more, sometimes twice or three times as much as
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  Speaker 2: what they're actually selling for. So get your tickets, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: from the River Center box office, from rivercenter.org or through thecolumbusballet.org,
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  Speaker 2: December 12th and 13th. It's the Nutcracker, the annual tradition event.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope to see you there. All right. So
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  Speaker 2: this is kind of where we are when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to Election Day. And like I said, there are some
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  Speaker 2: significant battleground states. There are a few states that we
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  Speaker 2: really need to keep a close eye on over the
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  Speaker 2: course of today. We have a few states that are,
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  Speaker 2: by all accounts, leaning in one direction. We got some
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  Speaker 2: that are just complete toss-ups. And the states that everybody
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  Speaker 2: really needs to keep an eye on over the course
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  Speaker 2: of today. My opinion, and these are the ones that
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  Speaker 2: seem to be, certainly seems like Georgia is, you know, safely,
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to the Senate, seems to be safely
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  Speaker 2: in hand for Democrats in Georgia with Ossoff, right? That
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  Speaker 2: just seems to kind of be where things are going
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  Speaker 2: for that. What really needs to be watched is the
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina, Texas, Alaska. We know there's some shenanigans going
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  Speaker 2: on there. Texas has been a show with James Tallarico. Kansas, Iowa, Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: those are all states to keep a really close eye on.
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  Speaker 2: Maine is another one. How many of these are, they
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  Speaker 2: feel like they teeter in one direction or the other,
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  Speaker 2: but it seems like, and Minnesota might, maybe, something to
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  Speaker 2: keep an eye on. I don't know. It's certainly leaning blue,
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  Speaker 2: but who knows. Uh, Ohio is another one leaning blue,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll see where it goes. Uh, Georgia, North Carolina
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  Speaker 2: seem a little bit more, uh, confidently, probably, I guess, likely. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but those are the states to keep an eye on, uh,
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  Speaker 2: keeping an eye on Michigan, Texas, Kansas, uh, South Carolina, Maine, uh,
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  Speaker 2: and I say Iowa, that's another one just to watch. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and really this is kind of where we are. This
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  Speaker 2: is just the position that we're currently in when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to control right now. And with candidates that are
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  Speaker 2: definitely in position to possibly step in and become senators
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  Speaker 2: or representatives, and I didn't even get into, but I mean, I, it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's a tough, uh, it's going to be tough to
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  Speaker 2: know where things are. The Senate is something that people
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  Speaker 2: are keeping an eye on because we've already heard the
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  Speaker 2: conversation of, excuse me, that we're going to be, uh,
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  Speaker 2: another impeachment that that's coming. Uh, if Democrats get control
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  Speaker 2: But the idea that folks on the left are happy
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  Speaker 2: to sit back and let the party be taken over
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  Speaker 2: by anti-Semites, anti-Israel, anti— I don't like the term capitalism— anti- free market, right?
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  Speaker 2: They don't love America. They want to change it. They
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  Speaker 2: want to fundamentally change it. They don't really support our Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: In some cases, they come from places or from support
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  Speaker 2: of people who want Sharia law in America. There's just
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  Speaker 2: a lot of reasons for anybody who is left of
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  Speaker 2: center or maybe right down the middle, draw the line
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  Speaker 2: in the sand. This is a defining moment for the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat Party. And they can either let this party, if
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  Speaker 2: control and power is the only thing that matters... then
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  Speaker 2: you're going to do what you got to do today.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a sad moment to get to, because as
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  Speaker 2: I've said, if this is where we go, be ready
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  Speaker 2: because the term communist is going to start floating around.
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  Speaker 2: People are going to be able to just say it
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  Speaker 2: out loud. You're going to have more conversation about things
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  Speaker 2: that should make the Jewish communities around the country feel uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: There used to be this constant lobbying of conversation in
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  Speaker 2: the direction of, we've got these alt-right conservatives that are anti-Semitic.
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  Speaker 2: They're the ones that are doing horrible things to synagogues.
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  Speaker 2: And the reality now is we've seen this right out
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  Speaker 2: in the open, whether it's this girl that attacked this
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  Speaker 2: girl on this college campus, whether it is all of
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  Speaker 2: the terrifying things that have happened to Jewish students at schools,
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  Speaker 2: that's happened to Jewish people in the streets, that's happened,
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  Speaker 2: the verbiage, the conversation that's been had at their expense.
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  Speaker 2: This is a defining moment right now. And even if
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  Speaker 2: you say, look, I am a staunch Democrat, this is
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  Speaker 2: your last chance to try to pull out of this
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  Speaker 2: nosedive that's happening because this is what's at stake today.
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  Speaker 2: I understand. You can say it's about power. It's about
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  Speaker 2: how much we hate Trump. It's about all these things.
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  Speaker 2: But letting someone tell you that you should hate Trump
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  Speaker 2: so much that you should support communism or that you
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  Speaker 2: should support anti-Semitic views or anti-Semitic candidates or people that
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  Speaker 2: think we deserve 9-11 or people who think any sort
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  Speaker 2: of horrible thing is deserved by people who want to
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  Speaker 2: support Israel. If that's what you think, and you are
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  Speaker 2: also Jewish, and that's what you want to vote for.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what to tell you. I think
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  Speaker 2: that you're going, well, it's the lesser evil. It's not.
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  Speaker 2: You're not voting for the lesser evil if you're voting
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  Speaker 2: for those things. That's not what you're voting for. I
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  Speaker 2: don't care what you think of Donald Trump. You're not
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  Speaker 2: voting for the lesser evil if you're voting for those things.
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  Speaker 2: But you got to do, it's your vote. You got
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  Speaker 2: to go do what you got to do. And honestly,
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  Speaker 2: for people in those states that I mentioned earlier, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: control of the Senate is there and that's where we,
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  Speaker 2: things could get really, and that's where a lot of the, the,
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  Speaker 2: the real candidates that came out. Um, when you think
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  Speaker 2: about what happened in Maine, when you had a guy
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  Speaker 2: with a Nazi tattoo that was running and was being
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  Speaker 2: supported just because he was Democrat and by golly control
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  Speaker 2: is the only thing that matters. Um, so today to
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  Speaker 2: my conservative friends who like to vote on election day, this,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta get out there and get it done. Got
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  Speaker 2: to encourage people around you to get out there and
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  Speaker 2: get it done. You don't necessarily need to encourage everybody
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  Speaker 2: to get out there and get it done, as I said.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's important that everyone get out there
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  Speaker 2: and vote today. I really don't. Not if you're not informed.
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  Speaker 2: Not if you don't really understand what you're voting for.
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  Speaker 2: And not if you're just voting a hate vote. If
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  Speaker 2: that's your vote. If your vote is just, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: going to get out there and vote because I hate
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  Speaker 2: the president or I hate a policy or I hate
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  Speaker 2: someone on his cabinet or whatever it is. I don't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily say that. But if you're going out there and
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  Speaker 2: you're voting to save the country, save the union and
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  Speaker 2: save the Democrat Party from from heading right over the cliff.
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  Speaker 2: More West Carol Morning Show right after the break. So
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  Speaker 2: Martha Stewart has apologized for her controversial Halloween costume. Apparently
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  Speaker 2: she dressed up like a homeless person. Uh, she says, uh,
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  Speaker 2: in her apology, she says, I'm very sorry. First of all, uh,
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  Speaker 2: she said the costume was insensitive and not funny. And
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  Speaker 2: she said at first she was distressed that the costume
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  Speaker 2: offended people explaining that she was trying to raise awareness
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  Speaker 2: about homelessness. Uh, apparently in the picture, I'm looking at
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  Speaker 2: it now. Okay. Uh, tattered clothing, dirt on her face,
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  Speaker 2: cardboard sign reading. I am hungry. Help me. This was
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  Speaker 2: her idea of a Halloween costume. Um, I know there's
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  Speaker 2: mixed feelings on this. I know that there are, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little surprised that someone, and I know Martha
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  Speaker 2: Stewart is not kind of part of the traditional Hollywood crowd.
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  Speaker 2: She's a little different, you know, done some jail time
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  Speaker 2: and whatnot. Uh, I just am surprised that we still
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  Speaker 2: have people in Hollywood that put themselves in this position
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  Speaker 2: and then apologize for it. And they're just caught up
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  Speaker 2: in this world. That's all. I'm surprised. That's the extent
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  Speaker 2: of my commentary on it. and I don't necessarily think
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  Speaker 2: that she probably didn't have bad intentions one of those
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  Speaker 2: brain fart moments for her to do it and then
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  Speaker 2: find out oh no people didn't like this very much
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  Speaker 2: and then find yourself where you're oh no I gotta
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  Speaker 2: apologize for this it's just it's a weird thing that
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  Speaker 2: still continues to happen She's not anti-Hollywood, but she's not
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  Speaker 2: really part of that crowd. But you still kind of
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  Speaker 2: think that maybe she would not necessarily. But she's done
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  Speaker 2: some time. She's been in jail. She's got a different life, right?
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  Speaker 2: A piece of video game history that was almost thrown
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: in the trash just sold at an auction for a
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: record-breaking $ 329, 400. A rare 1981 promotional arcade poster. for the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: game Donkey Kong, featuring the iconic gorilla alongside the very
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: first public appearance of Mario, who was then known as Jumpman.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: The poster was rescued from a Nintendo trash pile years
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: ago by a former employee and blew past the previous
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: record for video game art, which was previously held by
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: some Prince of Persia artwork at $ 63, 000. That's a big jump.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I think rightly so. making it the most expensive piece
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: of video game art ever sold. Uh, I don't have, uh,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: 330 grand to spend on, uh, this type of art,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: but I think if I did, you know, I would
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: be interested. I would have been interested in this. If I,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: if I had that kind of, if I was one
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: of those billion dollar lottery winners, uh, I'm a big
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Donkey Kong fan. It's my favorite video game ever. And
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I think it's, it should be in the conversation, uh,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: of the greatest video games of all time because it's
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the Mario legacy. So I think all
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: of that's appropriate. I do. I think you could make
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the case. I know there's other games that you could
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: say are better, but I think you could make the
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: case that this launched, this is the ship that launched
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Mario and all of the games that came after that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: So according to a new study, the use of nicotine
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: pouches among American adults has more than tripled over the
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: last few years. soaring from 3% to about 10%. Researchers
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: finding that many users are people who are already using
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: other tobacco, especially smokeless products such as chewing tobacco and snuff.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: While companies market nicotine pouches as a safer alternative to tobacco,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: there's still some concern about health studies about the particular
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: products that are still lagging behind. So things that Don't
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: and probably never, ever, ever will have anything to do
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: with me unless there's some weird connection to something else
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: for a thousand Alex. Taco Bell has teamed up with
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Swag Golf to launch a limited edition lineup of fast
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: food inspired golf gear. The custom collection features Taco Bell
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: themed head covers, engraved putters, gear pouches, and putter grips
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: designed to bring a dose of fast food fun to
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: the country club. You know, kind of feels like Caddyshack,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: doesn't it? Or Caddyshack 2, maybe more appropriately. With the
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: combination of Taco Bell and golfing seems a little bit odd.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Swag golf is in the business of bringing some wild
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: style to golf equipment, including skulls, playing cards, pop culture
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: references like movies, like Big Lebowski, the aforementioned Caddyshack, and others.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: So in that sense, it makes sense. It just seems
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: a little weird that it would show up. But again...
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: If I had billion-dollar lottery money and could afford Donkey
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Kong artwork for $ 330, 000, you know, if I was out
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: playing golf, I'd probably invest in some weird golf club stuff.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I got no problems with that. Probably Donkey Kong, though,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: more so than Taco Bell. That'll do it for this
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Tuesday edition of the show. Thanks to our sponsors and patrons.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you for listening. Catch you back here tomorrow morning.
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