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I'm Worried About the Future · 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, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning,
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twenty eighth day of February. I'm Wes, Thanks for joining me. I
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want to talk a little bit today about part of the dangers that we have
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to worry about for the next generation. Okay, just an observation that I've
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got that. I'll just throw this out there and do with it as you
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will. You can ignore it, you can blow it off. We hear
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a lot about we have to protect the environment for our grandchildren and our great
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grandchildren, and we hear that that's one of those things that happens to try
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to tap into something that's supposed to, you know, make us feel a
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certain way and have an impact on the way that we think about things.
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We just went through this with COVID. We were told to feel about it
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more so than think about it, and we were told you got to think
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about it, but we're gonna tap into your sentimentality and get you emotional about
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things. You're gonna kill grandma if you don't get the COVID shot and those
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kinds of things. And we hear that about the environment. We hear that
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about a number of things, but we really hear about it when it comes
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to, oh, we have to preserve our democracy. That's the one for
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the election this year. We're gonna hear that a lot between now and November.
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We're gonna hear about preserving our democracy. We're gonna hear that a lot
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because if Donald Trump wins, our democracy will be in danger. That's gonna
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be that. We've already heard it. You're going to hear it a lot
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more so we hear about the things that we have to preserve. We have
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to preserve the environment, we have to go all in on Green New Deal
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climate change issues. And believe when we get told we're going to die in
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twenty years, that's it. We got twenty years left. And then five
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ten years come and go, and they go, well, it's just twenty
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years from now. And then we get to that original twenty year mark and
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they go, well, it's just twenty years from now. They're going to
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kick the can and kick the can and that's just what they do. But
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they want you to know that if you don't do something now, which I
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guess translates to vote the way they tell you to give control to people that
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are the only ones that can solve the problems for the next generation. They're
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the only ones. No one else can fix it. They've been the only
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ones that have told you that they can fix racism. I don't know since
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LBJ right, they're the only ones. And then they tell you, now
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it's worse and it's ever been. I don't know how that's possible when you
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consider the origins, but I digress, worse than it's ever been, worse
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than it's ever Think about how absurd that is, Okay, So I mean
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if they just say that it's gotten worse, and some just say that even
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that's pretty bad when you consider you know, you've had a really long time.
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You know, you've had with sixty sixty years. We'll just say that
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you've had sixty years to make it better and it's worse. So why should
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anybody go, We're gonna blindly give you control to try to fix things.
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But if we don't fix the environment, what is the next generation or two
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generations down the line going to do. That's what they tell you. I
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think we have a more pressing problem for the next generation and two generations down
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the line, and it stems from this disregard for law, this disregard for
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hard work, this disregard for trying to stick to some sort of foundational household,
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some sort of trying to create something that will be a place where children
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can be raised and then grow up to be responsible adults. But for that
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to happen, they themselves have to be raised by responsible adults. I hear
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more and more stories, and I witness more and more things of people.
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I'm not going to go in any details, don't want to hurt any feelings,
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but people that just seem oblivious to laws or those unwritten laws. You
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know, in sports, they have the unwritten laws. Baseball has a lot
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of those unwritten rules, you know, things you're not supposed to do,
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things you are supposed to do, things that will get a ball thrown at
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you really hard. I think one of the unwritten rules is that, you
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know, if somebody you know attacks you with a baseball and throws it at
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you as hard as they can, you're not allowed to sue them. I
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don't know why I think I would fall under some sort of an assault,
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but I get it. They don't. They don't do in hockey, you
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know, the guys start fighting, and the refs just kind of go,
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all right, fight go ahead. Starts to get out of hand, though
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we're gonna break it up. There's unwritten rules in sports. There's just some
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things you don't do. This whole move that you know the Saints did in
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the in that game where they scored a touchdown against the Falcons as time was
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running out, lined up to take a knee and then you know, Jameis
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Winston handled the ball off or whatever to let the guys score a touchdown.
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It's an unwritten rule. You don't do that, and I know people go,
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you got to stop them. Then they lined up in victory formation to
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take a knee just so that a guy could get a touchdown, and doesn't
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mean anything at that point if you kind of cheat to get it, and
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it's not cheat, but it's not in good taste. It's an unwritten rule.
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We have those unwritten rules. There's unwritten rules in society. Some of
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them are actually written rules, but there's some that maybe fall under unwritten rules.
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Just basic things that we have to teach our children. We have to
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make sure that they see us behaving a certain way. That's the way that
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they learn the rules. You can tell them over and over again, Hey,
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these are the rules, these are the laws. This is what you're
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allowed to do and what you're not allowed to do. But I'm just amazed
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at the number of things that I see regularly, that I witness sometimes even
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firsthand, or you know, read a story about it. I don't think
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these things are being passed on. I don't think that they're making it to
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some of the adults now, and they're therefore not going to be able to
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pass them on to their kids. That's a concern I've got because if the
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kids don't learn it from this current generation of parents. And I'm in this
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group, right and I know I started a little late. My kids are
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quite a bit younger than many of my friends' kids. But I'm in this
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group. It's a challenge for me. I have to make sure they know
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certain basic rules, what's right and what's wrong, what you're allowed to do,
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what you should not do, what are the unwritten rules. You've got
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to pass it along. I don't feel like those are being passed along.
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I think we have a lot of people just don't seem to get it,
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don't seem to understand it. I don't even know that they're capable of getting
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it to pass it along. In some cases. We got crime all across
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the country just happening. People stealing things. I mentioned the other day,
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I had to get a permission from an employee to get a light bulb from
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my headlight on my very aged pickup truck. And it's not one of those
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new fancy ones, not one of those fifteen hundred dollars ones you replace the
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whole thing. No, it's just one bulb, eight dollars locked behind glass.
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And this is part of it. This is part of the problem.
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And we have people telling us over and over again, can't trust the police,
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can't trust laws, can't trust our founding fathers, can't trust and the
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other side going can't trust government at all. They'll make you get a shot
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even if you don't want to get it. They're going to force it to
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heell on. You got people having to sue their previous employers because they got
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fired during COVID because they didn't want to get the shot. And then some
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of the things that we were told you got to think, you got to
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listen to the science. They appealed to our emotion. And then now they're
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saying well, some of that logical stuff was right. I thought we were
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just doing this all on emotions. I thought this was one hundred percent emotions.
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We were working on. Don't kill Grandma, don't kill grandpa. That's
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my concern for the next generation. The Sun's gonna be hot. We're gonna
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have solar cycles that are gonna make the climate hot, and then they're going
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to back off and the things are gonna get a little bit cooler. Temperatures
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on Mars are going to fluctuate, much like they do here Venus, all
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the planets, even the dwarf planets like Pluto. All right, I just
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need a reason to mention it was a dwarf planet. Now, Yes,
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throughout the Solar System, when the Sun gets hotter, the planets all tend
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to get hotter. It's just one of those things that happens. Currently.
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By the way, as we're you know, getting into solar maximum phase,
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we're in this. In this part of the cycle, you're gonna hear about,
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oh, hottest summer evers come. This is gonna be the hottest summer
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ever, top five or whatever. All that's coming. Be ready for it.
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All right, that's enough of that. Now onto this and I want
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to mention first and foremost, I have to add just a little bit of
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a precursor to this story. You may know, you may not know.
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I don't know. If you've listened to me my radio show over the years,
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you may know that many, many years ago, I don't remember what
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year it was, I did an interview with George to Kay. He was
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coming to dragon Con in Atlanta. The purpose of the interview was to promote
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his appearance at dragon Con and to talk about his career, and we touched
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on a few things. I had a great time talking with George to K.
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By the way, when somebody says to Kai, just from the man
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himself, I was told, this is how you know if you're saying it
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right. To Ka rhymes with gay. I thought, I'll never forget that
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now. So when people say to Kai, just know that that's not right.
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It is to Ka. I got that from him, and I got
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that from his husband, And I think, if you're gonna hear that is
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a way to remember it. And you hear it from a man and his
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husband, you go, you know what, I think, I'm gonna trust
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them. I'm going with t K. Anyway, I did an interview with
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him, had a nice time chatting with him. We talked a little bit
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of his social justice causes, but we didn't go deep into the woods.
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That wasn't the purpose of the interview. But if you talk to George t
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Kay for very long, he brings up social things. He likes to talk
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about a number of them. One of the things that he talked about with
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me in my discussion with him was he talked about internment camps. He lived
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through that, he experienced it, his family experienced it, loved ones experienced
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it. And I say all of that to now lead into this topic I
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quickly want to touch on. George de Kay went on to X fired off
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a commentary in the direction of the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
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Mike Johnson made a comment about the murder of Lake and Riley. He I'm
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just quickly going to paraphrase. I'm not going to read the whole thing.
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He says, every parent, every American is sad in an outrage to hear
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about the laws of University of George student Lincoln Riley. Our prayers are with
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her family and friends as they more in the tragedy. The brutal murder took
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the life, and he references the killer, accused killer, and he basically
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said, you know, referenced the fact that this was someone in the country
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illegally. He mentioned one of the millions of illegal aliens the Biden administration simply
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released and unleashed upon our country. And of course talked about this a little
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bit yesterday because I talked about George, Governor Brian Kemp's letter that he wrote
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to the White House as well, so most people I think would have seen
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this particular post. He just moved on, a girl was murdered, and
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you can certainly, you know, if you want to. I mean,
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if you don't want to, and there's a lot of folks on the left
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that don't want to, but if you want to, you point the finger
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at the left and say, why'd you let all these people in the country
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and they're committing crimes and this is a horrific crime that was committed. George
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de Kay decided I need to comment on this, so he went to X,
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I know your type of politician, men like you smeared my community during
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World War Two by preying upon people's fears of others who didn't look like them.
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It led to the Internment and one hundred and twenty five and shattered Lives.
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Never again, he's trying to connect Republicans to FDR. It's interesting,
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isn't it, the way you can kind of selectively And it's one of the
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dangers of allowing people to rewrite history. People who've rewritten history in the South
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and the origins of the KKK, and they've gone, ah, well,
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they switched. It wasn't the real Democrats. They're now the Republicans that were
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the real people who started the KKK. Okay, whatever, it's the danger.
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Remember Hillary Clinton wanted to change the statue of Abraham Lincoln and say that
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Abraham Lincoln Democrat. They tried to take Abraham Lincoln away from the Republicans,
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the first Republican president. They tried to take him away. And I guess
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they're trying to use that argument, Oh well, it switched. He would
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have been a Democrat. No, No, he wouldn't. No. In
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fact, him not being a Democrat is why he fought on the other side.
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Remember we had that whole Civil War. All those statues that are being
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yanked down of Democrats, civil War generals. You know, I don't understand
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why they get associated with Republicans because people buy into this whole thing. Oh,
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they flipped it around, even though Democrats kept control of Georgia, you
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know, until the nineties. I don't understand that. I don't understand.
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They say, ah, that's what happened. They kept control the whole time.
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That never changed. Nothing changed there. But anyway, it's another conversation.
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I've had this discussion many times before. So he's trying to equate Mike
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Johnson, Speaker of the House Republican, with Franklin Delan and Roosevelt Democrat Darling
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Democrat by the way, who was responsible his party responsible for the internment camps
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during World War Two FDR the same party, by the way, that George
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t K is often you know, on a soapbox for it's absurd, it's
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absurd. How how do you and I mean, I'll say this, okay.
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I think anytime someone jumps into the fray and tries to do some good
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in the world, you're not always going to agree with they do. You
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know, you're not always going to agree with it. But I would say
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George t. K has done some positive things. I don't know specifically which
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ones haven't followed, haven't followed his social justice platform long enough. But I'm
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assuming that he's done some good. I do know that he has said some
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ridiculous things, didn't he There was a politic Rubio was getting ready to take
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a COVID shot, and I think George de kay was wishing something bad would
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happen to him when he took the vaccine. Remember, this was Trump's vaccine
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in twenty twenty. This wasn't the Biden administration's vaccine. So I know that
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he has I think he once referred to internment camps, referenced internment camps when
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he talked about genital mutilation. Republicans were trying to stop, you know,
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transitioning, and he equated that to internament camps. He said some ridiculous things.
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This has got to be up there though, and not realizing that the
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party he's supporting and blindly supports continues to support, is the party responsible.
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He can say that Mike Johnson's responsible. Mike Johnson had nothing to do with
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it, His party had nothing to do with it. FDR Democrats, it's
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really easy to prove that there's no discussion about flipping it. There's no discussion
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about flipping that one there's not a single Democrat alive that's saying FDR was really
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a Republican. No one, no one is making that accusation. They love
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him. There's that statue of him in a pine mountain sitting on the bench
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or an FDR State park. You go up there, you sit on it.
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Democrats love to take pictures with that thing. I know several they love
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to take a picture with that thing. They're not calling him a Republican at
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all, none of them are, but in a weird way. I think
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George k was trying to do that. I don't really understand that one.
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Right after the break, Well, the Barbie phenomenon continues on and we'll continue
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on into the summer. Phone manufacturer HMD Global is partnering with Mattel on pink
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Barbie flip phone. It's gonna be released this summer. It's a dumb phone,
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not connected to the internet, has no apps or anything on it.
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It's just for we're talking on the phone. That's what it's for. It's
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According to the HMD press release. So, I don't know if you have
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to answer the phone high bar. I don't know how that works. But
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have you heard a sound baths? It's the latest wellness trend. No water
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required. Participants are bathed in the sounds of soothing music. The sessions usually
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involved lying on a yoga mat while sounds of Tibetan singing bowls, gongs,
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and bells play. The practice is meant to be meditative, with people focusing
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on feeling the vibrations from the sounds. An instructor may also chant during the
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sound bath experience. Sounds interesting. Don't know I would try it, I
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don't. I mean, i'd try a comptroversion. I don't know that i'd
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pay for trying it, but i'd try it. I mean, if it
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was there. Hey, there's a story that broke on I guess social media
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one of the apps I don't talk about. I just don't talk about those
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China apps. Don't want anybody spying on me. But this story broke.
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It's a woman who says that her company she's based out of New Jersey.
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Doesn't say what company she works for, but she says she was asked that
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not just to share a room with a coworker on a business trip, but
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that they share a bed. They were going to Paris for a trip.
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She said she had to read the email several times because she couldn't believe she
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was being asked to do it. She said it sounded like something from a
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raunchy romance novel. There's a potential for it to get I mean, I
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don't know where you draw the line there. I mean, I've shared a
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room with a colleague, never had to share a bed, never been asked
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to share a bed by a colleague. That seems like crossing the line.
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I'm not talking about you know, you go on a trip, they don't
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have enough room and you got like a friend with you. You know,
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there's maybe four of you and there's two beds, and you just have to
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do what you I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about a co company
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saying, ah, you guys just sleep in a bed together. Well,
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nothing bad could come from that at all. I would think that if you
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just, you know, do what they ask after voicing your concerns, and
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then if something goes wrong, it seems like you might have a pretty significant
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lawsuit. I'm just thinking I mean, I'm not encouraging. I'm just saying
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that it sounds like they're setting themselves up for a problem. And finally,
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fast food giant Wendy's, don't do this to me. Wendy's. I'm a
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fan. If I have to go eat a fast food burgers, it's usually
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gonna be Wendy's. That's usually my first choice. They're testing out well,
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I guess they're they're following the trend that was tested by Uber and left Surge
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pricing means they'll be charging higher prices at times when demand is higher. This
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whole thing's not going to go into effect until next year. If it does,
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it doesn't, but you could see the price of a burger at Wendy's,
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or anything on the menu for that matter, go up during the lunch
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rush or at dinner time, and then I'll drop off a little bit between
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lunch and dinner because the prices will constantly be fluctuating. I guess they're going
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to have their menus in their restaurants will have to be digital so they can
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change at a moment's notice. I don't know that this is going to go
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over great. I mean, it's one thing I think you get away with
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it with you know, uber and Lyft. You kind of have these things
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where you need to do it. You know, you got a certain time
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and when you need to take an uber lyft. I mean, so you
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just do it. That's what the price is. That's what the price is.
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But if you are going into a fast food place in the prob I
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don't know, and if one does it, maybe they'll all do it,
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and that's where this could start to become a problem. But I don't know.
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I mean, if I'm craving a burger from Wendy's, I'm probably gonna
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get a burger from Wendy's. Just hope the price isn't bumping too much.
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They said, maybe up by a dollar on a single. Please don't do
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it. Don't do this to me. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition
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