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It's Okay to Pull Against Their Platform · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Tuesday morning, eighth day
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of August. I'm West thanks for joining me. Back to school for more
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schools in the area. I know some got started yesterday, and when I've
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been talking about Moscogee County, I guess I wasn't specifically addressing the younger ages
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because some of them got started yesterday as well. So depending on what age
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your kids are there, there pretty much back in school at some point before
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this week's over. If you're in the Chattahoochee Valley area is the case.
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Anyway, some got started last week and some, of course yesterday. So
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here we are on a Tuesday morning, and I want to talk a little
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bit about the Women's World Cup, and here this is what I want to
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specifically address with it, because I talked about this once before and now that
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we've had a little time on the other side of the US women's team being
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eliminated from the World Cup and that being a big shock and well a shock
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for some based on the way that they played, I don't think it's a
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big shock. I don't think it's surprising. They didn't look great at any
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point in this tournament. And just to be realistic, you when you are
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the best and have been the best for quite some time, that's you're the
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one that people are gunning for. You're the one that people are trying to
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knock off. So I'm not going to in any way disrespect the performance at
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all that they had in this because they didn't play great. However, it's
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a it's an extra tall challenge to meet time after time after time. And
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this is true in any sport. It's true at any level. There are
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teams that often successfully maybe win their division or make it to the playoffs or
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whatever. You don't win every time. Okay, Braves have a long history
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of this. They've won some World Series trophies, but they consistently make the
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playoffs and consistently they don't necessarily win. It's a high level of performance for
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them season after season typically, and it's just the reality of it. Alabama's
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football team certainly long standing tradition of being, you know, one of those
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teams that people are gunning for to knock them off. Georgia has shifted into
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that position in so many ways, at least the last two seasons and they're
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the team to knock off now. So you have two very dominant teams in
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the SEC right now and they're both being gunned for. It doesn't magically make
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Alabama not a target when someone plays them, because people still want to beat
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them, and they really want to beat Georgia. And Georgia, of course
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now is still trying to do what the US women's national team was trying to
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do, that's win three championships in a row. So it is a challenge.
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It is. The Patriots are one of those teams consistently a team that
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people wanted to beat. They've kind of fallen a bit now, but is
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there any reason to think they won't work their way back into that position.
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I don't, you know. We have to let history play itself out.
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Is Alabama going to get back to a spot where they overtake Georgia. We
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just have to wait and see how that plays out. But we're talking about
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the US women's national team in soccer today because there's a couple of things I
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want to specifically address with this. I am not a necessarily, you know,
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shut up and dribble kind of person. I do think that when we're
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talking about things that are, or at least historically have been, things that
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there's no need or reason to make them. Political sports is absolutely one of
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those things. There was a time when movies and TV shows you could typically
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sit down and watch them and not get a lecture, not get a lesson
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in it. Sometimes there might be some little things in it, little morality
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stories in it, but not always, and sometimes the characters were made and
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things backfired. Archie Bunker was meant to be someone to laugh at, and
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he became kind of a cultural phenomen for people that were more conservative that appreciated
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the things that he was saying, and he was supposed to be mocked.
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We were supposed to make fun of him. And the characters that were supposed
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to be on the other side of the aisle and the voices of reason in
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it were the ones ultimately who looked like morons because he made them look morons.
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A lot of Donald Trump and Archie Bunker isn't there anyway. So that
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of course happened again with Tim Allen and Last Man Standing. It's happened multiple
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times in history, and that's just the reality of the way things are sometimes.
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So we know that there have been moments in history where we've watched things
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gradually become more of a agenda based programming for it, and it doesn't have
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to be. It shouldn't shouldn't be that way. Another character that sort of
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inadvertently became a cultural icon and a cultural hero for certain groups and has basically
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been pushed aside to the point of, I guess maybe even killed off.
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They just sort of soured and ruined. A character who historically was a really
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popular, not an a list Marvel character, but a significant Marvel in history,
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and that's The Punisher, a character who was intended to be this vigilante
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that was taking care of the people that just justice would not properly serve against
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them, and he was going to go take care of it himself. His
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family was killed and the corrupt politicians wouldn't do anything for him, so he
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took justice into his own hands, and he learned of other people who had
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similar stories, and he took justice for them into his own hands, or
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put it into their hands, or however you want to put it. That's
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what he was about. But a lot of people on the right, police
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officers included, and he was supposed to be a referendum on corrupt politicians,
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corrupt police officers, corrupt anything. So when police officers, who you know,
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basically follow the thin blue line philosophy on things, when they started to
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embrace the Punisher's skull logo, it caused folks to be uncomfortable on the left.
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It caused folks at more of all to become uncomfortable. It caused changes
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in the writing. They change the logo. They got rid of that logo
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because they said, man, conservatives, they don't say conservatives, they say,
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you know, alt right conservatives or you know, far staunch extremist conservatives.
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They say that they embrace the skull. So we have to get rid
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of the skull, and we have to push that aside. And it's effectively
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ruining things because if Marvel would just say, hey, we're gonna tell these
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stories and we're gonna let people embrace whatever characters they want to embrace. We're
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kind of starting to see it with Batman outside of Marvel going over to DC,
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we're seeing it a little bit with Batman. Have you seen the trailer
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for the New Blue Beetle movie. Yeah, that is George Lopez saying that
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Batman is a fascist in it because he's, you know, rich. I
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think they've even downplayed the rich in some of the Marvel comics where he's not
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rich anymore, they've downplayed his richness and all that stuff, his wealth,
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I guess I should say so politicizing it destroys the audience, it destroys the
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interest in it. And that's certainly been the case in sports. We've seen
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this happen over and over and over again. So for me, it's not
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so much as shut up and dribble. It's more of a hey, how
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about taking the time to appreciate the fact that maybe you would have fans in
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all parts. Now, maybe you're saying I don't want fans that don't vote
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the way that I vote. And if that's what you're saying, then you
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have to accept the consequences that come with that. And there's a consequence that
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does come with that. There's a lack of interest in your movies. There's
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a lack of interest in your comic books. There's a lack of interest in
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your theme park. There's a lack of interest in your sport. There's a
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lack of interest in your pro sport, your amateur sport, all versions of
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it. There's a lack of interest. And if your goal, like the
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US women's national team has been, is to make sure that all women are
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being paid fairly and rightly, so, you know that's what they want.
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They want it to be rightly so. And if they can't come up with
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enough audience in the seats to cheer them on, they're not going to make
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the revenue. Even when they've been successful, there's still been opportunities for people
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to not show up. Why why would they not show up? Because they
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don't want to be preached to or at They don't want a morality lesson.
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They want to show up at sports and pull for a team together united,
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and then go home. That's what most people want to do when they go
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to sporting events. That's what most people do when they go to the movies.
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They want to see the Punisher on the big screen and cheer for their
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hero and go home. They want to see Batman and they want to watch
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him somehow magically save the day and pull things out and do the right thing.
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And then they want to go home and they want to tell people about
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what a good time they had without someone saying, but I don't watch that
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Batman Because DC said he was a fascist. They don't want people to say,
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but I don't support that team anymore. I don't support that sport.
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I don't watch the NFL, And I know people who gave up on the
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NFL. Some came back, but some truly gave up on it. Some
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just basically said I'm done. I don't want to follow sports that are going
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to take a knee during the anthem. I don't want to follow the NBA.
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I don't want to follow I think baseball has mostly dodged it. There
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were some people who weren't happy about decisions that were made concerning the All Star
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Game in Atlanta, but overall, I think winning certainly helps. When your
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team is good, it would be a lot easier to maybe turn your back
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on the Braves. But it wasn't the braves fault. It didn't have anything
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to do with the Braves. It had to do with politicians in Atlanta.
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But some people don't see it that way. I talked a little bit,
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I think, last week, about the fact that we had a situation where
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when Barack Obama was president and there were Republicans in power, that we're trying
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to make things difficult for him to pass legislation. He wanted to come in
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and do certain things that he said was going to make everything better, fulfilling
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campaign promises that he probably knew realistically he had no chance an opportunity to pass.
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I think that's probably the case. I think he had good intentions in
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that regard in some cases, but I think since some regard, he knew,
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I'm not going to be able to do all these things. There were
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opportunities to do it, and they didn't get it done. And then when
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Republicans took control, it was almost impossible for him to do anything. And
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I know people that said they would have let him do what he wanted.
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He would have been fine, but they were trying to make it hard.
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They didn't want him to succeed. No, no, they didn't want him
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to succeed because he was trying to do things, hoping to do things that
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were in direct opposition to what the voters who put the Republicans in power in
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Congress would in direct contrast to what they wanted, and those politicians were there
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to do what their constituents asked him to do. So, yes, there
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were people I remember Rush Limbaugh took flak because he said, I hope Barack
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Obama fails, and people said, oh, can you hold the president fails,
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and he was very clear, I hope he fails in doing the things
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that he wants to do because they'd be horrible for this country period. So
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the US women's national team, I'm gonna put it in the same category with
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people like Colin Kaepernick and Lebron James and others. I can understand why people
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were not pulling for them to win. I do. I get it.
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We saw already at the beginning of the World Cup. I guess the only
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team who stood and you know, didn't all put their hands on their hearts
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for their anthem, and you know not the singing along thing is not an
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issue for me. It is for some. But I do think if you're
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there and you're representing your country on a national team, you should be at
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least appreciative enough for your opportunity to be there to at least follow the general
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code of conduct for your anthem. If you're wearing a hat, take off
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the hat, put your hand over your heart. I don't care if they're
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singing. If they're focused on the game, that's fine. I know some
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people took serious offense on the non singing doesn't bother me, but I do
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understand that once that became, and that was hyped up all the way up
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to their last game. They played their final game, they played Sweden,
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they lost. It was there was talk about whether or not they were singing
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at the anthem when the game started, And I know that's partly that you
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got media that are just hungry for clicks and they want to talk about it.
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But the reality here is that I understand why people weren't pulling for them,
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and it's got nothing to do with which country that they represent. And
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it's hard. It's hard for me knowing that I've pulled for the women on
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this team in many tournaments in the past, been happy with their successes.
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It's hard for me not to pull for my homeland. It's just hard.
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But there's also part of me that says, well, if they're going to
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use this platform they talk about to trash the country, to trash the things
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that they should hold sacred here, because we have a platform, we have
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to use our platform. Is this this platform? And that's true also with
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the you know in the Olympics, with the basketball team, there were players
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on that team. There have been, and you think, here we go,
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here's our platform, here's our opportunity to talk about all the things.
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And it's also true with movies. It's also true with TV shows. Sometimes
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I just don't have any interest in supporting financially a movie or TV show if
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it's got some loudmouth wind bag on it that wants to say, I have
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my platform, I need to express the things that I need to express.
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Do they have a right to express it? Sure? Do I have a
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right not cheer them along? I equate it with Rush Limbaugh's comments about Barack
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Obama. Did he think it was in the best interest of our country for
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views that he opposes politically to succeed? No? Do we think that as
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citizens when we turn on a football game or a TV show or a movie.
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Think about this Sound of Freedom movie and this success it's had. You
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got folks on the left going nuts. They're trying to figure out, how
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is this happening? How is this a successful movie? It's beaten most of
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the big supposed summer blockbusters that we're going to be and they just never panned
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out, And this movie is and we all passed on it. We had
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an opportunity to pick it up, but we didn't want to pick it up
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because of the content of it. We didn't want to pick it up because
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it might be associated with some views that some people in qan on hold.
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They didn't want to do anything they have anything to do with it. They
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didn't want it to succeed, and they still don't want it to succeed.
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But it has succeeded. It's continued to do well. It's continued to crush
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at the Buck's office. And is it, you know, going to be
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the Best Picture winner? And no, it's not going to do that.
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Is it getting a message out to people that needs to be heard? Sure?
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Is it doing it without specifically saying, hey, you people on the
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left, you're jerks, Yes it is. It's just telling a story,
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and it's telling a story that needs to be heard, and it's something that
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people need to be aware of here in the States and all around the world.
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It's telling that story. That's all it's doing. That's what movies are
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supposed to be, storytelling. TV shows are supposed to be storytelling. They're
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not supposed to be morality plays that teach us how to think before they're over.
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It's not supposed to be Empire, a TV show that was forced into
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the ether for the purposes of convincing Black people that being gay is okay.
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That was the message, was the main message of the show, Empire,
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That was the purpose of it. Moonlight Oscar Best Picture winner not the best
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movie out that year. To be completely honest, it was okay. Shouldn't
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have won Best Picture, but it did. Why what was the message of
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the movie It's okay to be gay black people? It's okay. That came
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after two thousand and eight, when California couldn't pass a gay marriage bill because
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a lot of the black people that had never voted before and showed up to
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vote for Barack Obama wouldn't vote for gay marriage. Backfired. They got the
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presidency, they could not get the gay marriage bill they wanted. So was
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it wrong to not pull for your home country's team if it means you're kind
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of just pulling for them not to have as big of a platform anymore,
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I don't think so. Do you want them to have the platform? It's
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hard. It was hard for me not to pull for them, I'll be
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honest. They got into penalty kicks and deep down on this is really conflicting
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for me. Thankfully we have an international household and the following day, twenty
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four hours later, we got to watch Australia win two. Now and we
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still have a team in the fight, so it makes it a little bit
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easier. I know not everybody has that, but we do. And I'm
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not saying that there aren't people on the Australia team that don't seize the opportunity
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to find their platform. We just don't have to see them in all the
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commercials. We don't have to see them in interviews. We don't have to
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hear about whether they're singing the national anthem or not. We don't have to
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a new survey found one in six Americans eat dessert every day. Survey also
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found that some states like their sweets more than others. People in Tennessee are
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most likely to have dessert every day, followed by Colorado, Louisiana, and
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North Carolina. Do you have that many dessert so you're that frequent with it?
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I know my kids have a tendency to, you know, want a
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based on you know, how many calories you had during the day. Right,
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how about this sixty nine dollars for a steak. If it's a good
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Charlie's Steakhouse in Orlando, and it's sixty nine dollars. The steak using that
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according to Ammadon, so there you go. Oh and by the way,
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if you've seen the movie, apparently there's a weird Barbie character and they're played
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by Kate McKennon, and it's gonna be sold as a doll and people are
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saying, Hey, it's great, They're gonna make it. I think that
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was the plan. I'm pretty sure they had marketing plans from the very beginning.
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I don't think they just went, hey, let's do this. They
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say it'll be available for pre order until August eighteenth, and then it could
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have it in time for Christmas. That's all. That'll do it for this
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