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Celtics Coach Changed the Subject on Reporter · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day. You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show, Monday morning, tenth
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day of June. I'm West Thanks for joining me, Thanks for starting your
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week with me. As we zip on into the month of June ten days
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deep, already, how's that even happen? I know this is a regular
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sentiment, but the more people I talk to there, I don't even know
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how We got through May so fast and we're just flying through the month of
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June already. It's happening quickly, and we're trying to do them best you
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can. When you got the kids out on summer break, you want to
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make some memories while you can. You want to do some I guess,
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any sort of thing you can do to kind of keep them active that mine
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are doing. They've got summer work that they're trying to do. We gave
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them the first couple of weeks off just take, you know, do whatever,
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and then we got into June and it's like, now you got to
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start the summer work because we don't want to be doing this in you know,
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late July, scrambling to get all this stuff done. And I know
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a lot of people are kind of in this position where you're trying to figure
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out, well, where's the sweet spot in between beach trips or you know,
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whatever vacations you got planned. And I know some people that are doing
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like a you know, they loaded up the camper and they're doing a big,
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you know, cross country trip that I'm jealous, that's amazing. And
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they've been checking in at various you know, significant places of you know,
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summer. When you do those sort of travel, you want to hit certain
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places and you go to someplace like you know, Mount Rushmore and like,
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oh yeah, check, wow, Okay, they've made it that far already.
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So yeah, it's kind of a challenge, I guess, to figure
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out when to fit in some of the summer work to try to keep their
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brains active. I know some schools, I think most of them do some
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sort of summer work to keep them going. But anyway, so we're flying
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on through and the next thing, you know, we'll be into July and
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going what's going on here? I just feel that that's coming. But trying
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to get as much poll time in as we can and also planning a trip
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of our own. It's not quite going to Mount Rushmore. But we got
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some stuff planned for this summer. All right, I want to talk about
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a couple of things because something has come up. We're now into the NBA
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Finals, Celtics and Mavericks are playing in the finals, and something has come
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up. And this is I guess after Game one Celtics won, there was
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a postgame press conference. Now this wasn't postgame, I guess this was maybe
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Saturday before Game two, which was last night. And the head coach for
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the Celtics, Joe Missoula, who is mixed race. Okay, he's one
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parent is black, one parent's white. That's how mixed race works. And
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then the coach of the Dallas Mavericks also mixed race, one parent black,
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one parent white. Just in case you forgot to just explained it. Jason
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Kidd is the coach for the Mavericks and they It's interesting and I've heard a
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few people discuss this, especially people that are or biracial, talk about the
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fact that it's actually unbelievably bigoted and racist, and it's a continuation of a
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racist thing that we have had in America for a long time. This notion
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that if one of your parents or any of your ancestry is black, that
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makes you black. And it's been interesting to hear people discuss that. Now
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this is not I will say this. They make a great argument. I
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understand that we live in this society and this culture where this is one of
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those areas that I'm not supposed to have an opinion on it, right,
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but I will say this, their argument makes sense to me if you want
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to start having this discussion about why we still consider someone who is mixed race
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to just be black no matter what. And the discussion that I've heard many
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times, and they ultimately will reference back to Barack Obama and they'll say,
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you know, well, he was our first black president. No, he
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was a biracial president, which he was again, one parent black, one
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parent white. I don't want to have to be the one to explain how
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that works, but I just feel it's important to stress. We went through
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this with Colin Kaepernick, who said most of his life, I believe I
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remember them saying, because he was raised by a white family, he kind
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of identified as white and then he got to a point where he realized no,
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no, no, I'm black. But anyway, how a person decides
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that they want to identify themselves, I think is also a part of this.
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But I do think it's important that we do have terms like biracial or
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mixed race, as many of us in America are. It's part of that
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melting pot that we talk about. It's different cultures, it's different ideas,
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it's different religions, it's all those things that come together. Well, the
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reason this is relevant as it pertains to this, it's because under normal circumstances,
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you might say, well, that's great, good we got two mixed
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race coaches. I don't understand the importance of that. Well, it's significant.
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This hasn't happened before. And one of the reporters, Vincent Goodwin,
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works for Yahoo Sports and basically says, this is the first time since nineteen
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seventy five that the NBA Finals had two black coaches. So again, he's
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saying first time since seventy five. He's not saying this is the first time
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ever. Now, there's a certain amount of things that we do culturally.
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There's you know, we're going through this, we have these different staples that
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come along and we say, oh, well, for the first time ever
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this happened. This NBA Finals has a woman who's part of the broadcast team.
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It's the first time that that's ever happened. I don't know how many
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of these things to me, you make a focus and you say, this
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is the first time that this has happened, this is historic, and then
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the second time it happens to me, it's no longer historic. Is it
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worth noting? Sure, but it's not history making. We have a woman
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who's part of the broadcast team for the NBA Finals. That's happened now that
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glass ceiling has been broken. Perhaps a woman will be the lead play by
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play caller on it. Maybe that will make it a little different, and
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that will be another thing to note rather than just one of the color commentators.
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And there's two, but you know, worth noting, certainly worth mentioning.
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Hey, this is historic, this has happened. I don't know how
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many times we should stop and acknowledge these things, you know, I don't
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know that there's a harm in acknowledging it in some way each time, But
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is it necessary to do a deep dive into it each time, especially when
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the coaches involved say what's the point? Or maybe they have a very different
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answer altogether. So Vincent Goodwin makes the point that first time since seventy five
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NBA Finals where you have two black coaches. He says, this was the
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question he asked Joe Missoula, given the plight sometimes the black head coaches in
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the NBA, do you think this is a significant moment? Do you take
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pride in this, how do you this or do you not see this at
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all? And it's important that last part of the question is part of what
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jumped out at me to make me really want to talk about this. Missoula's
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response was, I wonder how many of those have been Christian coaches. See,
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Joe Missoula is very outspoken about his faith. He has said in a
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number of press conferences that his faith is how he identifies himself first and foremost.
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He understands the importance of race, he has said that, but he
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has said that that's the most important thing to him is his faith, and
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that's what he did. See. Joe Missoula and Jason Kidd apparently been raised
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Catholic and they put a lot of stock in their Christian faith and they feel
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that that's the best way that they can reach other people and the world and
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society and improve things. So this reporter who asked do you take pride in
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this? Oh, do you think this is a significant moment? Do you
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take pride in this? How do you view this? Or do you not
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see this at all? See, that's the key part of all of this,
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because I think by answering it, I wonder how many of those have
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been Christian coaches? And then that was it. They went on to the
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next question, which led the reporter, of course, who couldn't just let
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it go even after offering an out in the question, and was not capable
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of just letting the whole thing go, decided to write an article about it,
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and in writing the article about it, basically laid out all the reasons
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why Joe Missoula should have commented on it, and should have stressed and should
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have talked about and should have you know, if he gets pulled over by
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police in Boston, all these kind of things, claiming that color blindness this
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is in his article color blindness is impossible. I mean, it's one of
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those things where you have to basically say, you asked a question, and
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you asked, do you think it's a significant moment? If he had stopped
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for a minute and said, well, you just mentioned this significant moment,
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was it would have been the first time it happened. This is the first
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time that you know, it's been you know, forty nine years. Okay,
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this is the first time it's happened in forty nine years. But it
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happened a long time ago, and it's it's worth mentioning, isn't it that
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this was one of those barriers that was glass ceilings, whatever you want to
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call it. This was dealt with in the NBA a long time ago.
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This is one of those things that we took strides in as a society.
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I can't say we because I was a base the last time it happened.
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I was born in seventy five, So that's the only reason I got the
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math so fast on it being forty nine years ago. So if he wanted
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to say that, I don't know that it's it was significant the first time.
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I think. Now, we're trying to play basketball. That's my job.
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You know, I'm not a social justice guy. I'm here to coach.
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I don't know that he could have said that actually would have gotten blasted
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for that. Sure, do you take pride in this? And you know
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he didn't answer that, How do you view this and then or do you
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not see this at all? I think his answer is he covered I think
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all of those didn't he answer the question? I mean he's being accused of
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ignoring the question. Do you think this is a significant moment? I interpret
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by his answer no, I don't. Do you take pride in this?
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I hear no, I don't. How do you view this? I view
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this as I wonder how many of them Christian coaches? Or do you not
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see this at all? I don't see this as important as whether or not
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we have two Catholic coaches. We have two Christian coaches that are working this
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NBA finals. That to me is how he answered the question. He laid
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it out there, you know, that's how he answered it. But he's
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been accused of not answering. See, when it comes to faith, we
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get told what we're supposed to say when we're Christians. Right, if this
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was a case of you know, we've seen all these cases where people are
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saying, hey, I have Pride month and I support Palestine, and then
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you see people that are starting to show up, especially some of the pro
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Israel either gay or trans people that are stepping up and saying, wait a
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minute, you do know you can't go to Palestine if you're gay. They
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don't support gay pride, they don't support homosexuality at all. It's either prison
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or death. And then people are going, well, I I didn't know
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that, and how do you not know that? But it's one of those
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things where they say, well, you know, in Muslim countries, that's
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kind of you know, that's pretty standard. No one's asking the Muslim countries
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specifically. They're not pressuring them to change it. They're not pressuring them to
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say not only is it okay, but they're pressuring them, not pressuring them
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to say that it's good. See, that's one of the things that Christians
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get pushed for in America right now and around the world, is it's not
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just tell us that this is okay, it's tell us it's good, tell
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us this is a good thing for us to do. I saw an article
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that was written by someone and this was not necessarily a writer for The Federalist,
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but it was a freelance author who was published by the Federalist. Wrote
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an article about Dolly Parton. But how Dolly Parton is very diplomatic when it
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comes to not offending people. She's been asked a number of times, Hey,
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say something negative about Trump, and she said, no, I've got
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fans that are Republicans. I've got fans that are Democrats. I don't get
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into that. You know, say something about gay right, say something about
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a number of different things, and she'll just very you know, it's not
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my place to judge anybody. I just, you know, I have my
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sins. She takes the you know, glass houses approach to it. And
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this person wrote this article where it was just you know, attacking her for
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not taking a stand. How she can you can't say that you're a Christian
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and then not answer the question as ultimately what the article is about and what
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was interesting about it and the article itself. To me, I didn't really
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understand the need to attack Dolly Parton. First of all. That was confusing
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to me. But anyway, it was a strange person to jump in and
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attack. And I don't know, it's not like we're you know, somebody's
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going after Taylor Swift, who's got I mean, Dolly Parton certainly has her
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huge fan base, but we're not talking about one of those cases where you're
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going, Man, we really need to hear what Dolly park I think she
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said kind of what she feels about most things. I don't know that we
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have to push Dolly Parton to come out and tell us about certain things.
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I think we kind of know where she stands. Nobody was asking Betty White
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in the last days, you know you need to we need to break down
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the following things that have changed in the almost one hundred years that you've been
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with us. We need to go through all these discussions. But that's something
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that we're expected to do as Christians. Is it's not just say you know
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because I say it on the show all the time. I've talked many times
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about separating my faith and my politics. At times, there's times when when
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the circles overlap, and then there's times when they don't. There's times when
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I know my beliefs and my faith are different than what societally we're going to
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have in a free country where people should be governing themselves. And I've said,
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look, you do whatever it is that you want to do. You
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do you whatever it is that makes you happy, as long as it doesn't
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hurt other people, and consenting adults would be part of that, and don't
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ask me to participate it in any way. And that foodes. Don't come
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to me and ask me to tell you that it's okay or that it's good.
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See, it's not just is it okay, it's is it good.
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I've shared here that I know a few people four that have either transitioned or
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are transitioning or sort of transitioned, and I know that at least one of
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them has been very outspoken about Look, if you are not doing everything you
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can to help me and tell me that what I'm doing is good, you're
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not really my friend. It's a weird stance to take. And see,
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it's not just specifically about religion, but it does relate to religion. So
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here's a guy who's basically saying, let's talk about how you're one of the
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two black coaches first time in forty nine years. Do you not see this
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at all? And he says, well, I just wonder how many of
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those have been Christian coaches? He answered the question. But now the writer,
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who I guess got his feelings heard or maybe had people go oh uh,
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it feels like he had to come out and write an article. He
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had to come out and say, uh, you know, here's here's here's
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why he's wrong. For how he answered the question, Uh, it's interesting
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that we were when it comes to race, when it comes to Pride Month,
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when it comes to a handful of things, you're you're just you're not
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allowed, even as a black man, he's not allowed to answer the question
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that he was asked. He's not allowed to just say this is how I
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Carol Morning Show right after the break. Okay, so we have talked about
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treat their diabetes. Then it was, oh, they can't find enough ozempic
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to treat people. Oh my gosh, people are using it to lose weight,
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which is one of the potential side effects of the drug. Anyway,
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so it led to a few things. That people's faces looked different, people's
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their chest, and I guess it's the term now is starting to call it
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diplomatic way to put it, trying to keep it as diplomatic as possible,
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out loud. So I'm in the true love group. And I think there's
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a couple of things here. When you say eighty eight percent of married couples
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engaged couples say they believe in true love, I would hope so if they're
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married or engaged. But I also kind of feel like maybe if they didn't
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believe it, they still have to say it because they're married or engaged.
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Right anyway, how picky are you about the person who does your hair?
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According to And I want to stress I do believe in it. I'm not
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just saying it because I'm married. I really do believe in it because I've
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people talking about some of the dangers of some of the artificial sweeteners. Now
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