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Four Years Ago, It was Just Getting Started · 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 Carrol Morning Show. Monday morning, fourth day of
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March. I'm West Thanks for joining me rolling on endo this month of March.
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This is, by the way, like we're hitting right out about the
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four year anniversary of I guess when all hell broke loose with COVID. I
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mean, that's where we are now at about four years later everything we started
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to get the information earlier in twenty twenty. We were starting to get those
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little bits of this is what's happening around the world, this is what's happening
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in Italy. We saw what was happening in Italy and I think France,
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and there were a few countries, and we were saying, seems to be
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a little bit more serious than some of the other pandemics were warned about,
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because we were warned about a bunch of them. There were so many things
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we were told to be afraid of, and we were told, you know,
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the killer bees are coming, and then the murder hornets are coming.
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That was more recent. We were told that avian flu was going to kill
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us. We were told that mad cow disease was going to be a bigger
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thing than what it was. And it's not to say that none of these
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swine flew. It's not to say that none of these things were really a
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thing. They just didn't have the huge global or even us impact if we
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want to stick closer to home. So needless to say, at this point,
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about four years ago, we were just maybe starting to figure out,
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oh my gosh, this might be more of a thing than any of those
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other things. And some people never took it overly seriously, some to their
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detriment. Some came out of it relatively clear. I know some people who
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avoided following any of the guidelines that were placed in front of them. I
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know some that followed every single one of them. I know some that followed
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them and still got sick. I know some of them who did not follow
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them and died. It's a wild thing to look back on. It's a
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wild thing to reflect on at this point four years later. And there are
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a lot of things that I think we learned in the last four years,
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but the first thing we really have to spend some time looking back on.
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And I think it's only appropriate that it's the four year anniversary of you know,
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two weeks to stop the spread, stay home and wipe your groceries off.
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Wear a mask and gloves when you go to the grocery store. I
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did all those things. We didn't know. I mean, I can tell
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you right now, I didn't know. I did every one of those things,
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every single one of those things. And it's hard to know how many
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of the things did any good at all. It's easy to sit back and
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play Monday morning quarterback and say, well, none of that stuff benefited any
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of us, but you can't prove that. You can't say that it definitely
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didn't help. The stats on the masks, it's hard to gauge cases of
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the flu and colds. They were down while people were wearing the masks.
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You've got countries in Asia that have been wearing masks for various reasons over the
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years, and I mean, there has to be something positive to it,
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right I can't say that right now, if I was told tomorrow you need
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to put a mask on and go outside, that I'd be ready to do
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that at all. I didn't wear a mask when I was outside at the
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park. I didn't wear a mask when I was walking in my neighborhood.
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I didn't do those things, but we definitely were given a list of guidelines
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to follow. Some of us did, some did not. And you were
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told, if you don't do it, you're going to kill Grandma. You're
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going to be the worst person ever if you don't do these things. So
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kind of trying to follow some kind of guideline and think, well, I
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don't want to be the guy that's not following it and causes this to be
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worse. So we really don't know. I mean, we got an idea
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of what some of those things were and how effective they might have been.
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We've got an idea of some of the things that we were told that weren't
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true on both sides. We know that, and I still think we're sorting
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through what some of those things are. The The main thing that we have
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to look at, first and foremost before we even spend any time talking about
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this, is looking back at why was this different than all of those other
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things? What made this so much worse? Because, like I said,
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we've been worn before. Watch out, the killer bees are coming. I
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remember hearing that as a kid and being terrified killer bees, bees that can
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sting you and kill you. This was like before the movie My Girl came
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out too, So it was really scary before that and then you saw it,
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and even more scary when you like, that's a call he calling.
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Ah. Sorry spoiler alert if you never watched the movie My Girl. So
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what made it worse? What made it so much worse? I mean,
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was it that much stronger? Was it that much more dangerous as far as
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a virus goes? I mean what made it worse? And I think it's
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pretty clear now four years later that we can look back and say, I
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think the thing that made it the strongest and the most deadly was the fact
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that it was an election year. I'm not taking anything away from the fact
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that it was deadly. A lot of people died. I know people that
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died, People that I care about died because of COVID. Period. I'm
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not talking about those cases where they were in a car accident and they later
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said no, no, they had COVID. I'm not talking about that.
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I'm talking about people that I care about that had COVID and died from it.
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Absolutely, it was a deadly virus, not saying that it wasn't.
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Apparently, even though we didn't get a good experience with it in that regard,
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and I say a good experience a bad experience. But you know,
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swine flew also deadly, avian flu also deadly. I guess cow also deadly.
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All those things deadly. The old regular flew deadly. So the biggest
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thing that made it have such an impact on our way of life it's the
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fact that it was an election year, and now we know it was about
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four years ago. At this point, when people realize we're going to start
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shutting things down, they're going to start asking people to stay at home for
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two weeks. What a weird time that was. I feel like the further
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we get away from it, the more important it is for us to just
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take a minute and remember it. Remember what it was like when they were
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telling us you should stay at home for two weeks, don't leave your house.
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In some parts of the world, they want you to go outside,
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don't go in your front yard. What a dumb thing to tell people,
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We're going to prosecute you if you go into your front yard. Idiot,
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idiotic. No explanation for that makes that less idiotic. So it was at
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this point before they were telling us all of those things that we were supposed
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to do to not kill grandma. That we saw our first tweets. Back
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then it was called Twitter, now it's called x. We saw our first
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tweets from lobbyists and folks on the left saying this is how we're going to
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get Trump. This pandemic, this virus, this is how we're going to
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get him. And those started to pop up from a number of people on
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the left. Strategists. They saw it as an opportunity and they absolutely pounced
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on it. We ran through the whole routine of, you know, keep
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us scared, keep us a little confused, keep us a little off balance.
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They told us sometimes follow the science, and then sometimes they basically didn't
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say this, but told us to follow the emotion. They said, follow
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the science, And when people pointed out what the science was about a pandemic
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and about a virus, they said, no, no, no, But
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if you don't do what we say, you're gonna kill grandma. See that's
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not following the science. That's following the emotion. The science told us that
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realistically, hurt immunity was going to be the best way to handle it,
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and it would be moving forward. And that's what they've told us now Oh
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yeah, heard immunities. Ultimately, why you don't necessarily have to go get
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a shot? Now what I thought we were gonna have to get a shot
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every year for the rest of our lives because of this. Eh, it
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was just things we said at one point, wasn't necessarily following the science.
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Also, in the spirit of following the science, we had doctor Anthony Fauci
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who was telling us people questioned me. To question me is to question science.
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It's the whole nature of science is questioning, isn't it. I mean
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I'm not a scientist, not at all, even a little bit, but
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I have an understanding of how it works. It's about a series of questions
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and you never stop asking them. I host a podcast on every Thursday and
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it's called Made of Stars and doctor Sean Crusin from the Columbus State University co
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Cola Space Science Center, and I cover space news. And the number of
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times, it seems over the past I don't know, like seventeen years we've
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been doing a radio or podcast of this particular show. The number of times,
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especially here lately, when Sean comes to me with a story and says,
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hey, we're going to cover this, cover this today, this is
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about how they used to think this and now they realize that they've been wrong
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for a really long time. Now. If someone didn't question it, if
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someone just said, oh, we're gonna stick with the old thing. It's
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better to stick with the old thing, then they're not sciencing. So for
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doctor Fauci to say, questioning me is questioning science. That was one of
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his greatest hits. There were some others, some of the things like,
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you know, I didn't know anything about gain of function anything to do with
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it, blah blah blah. It's a whole run of things. So what
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is the ultimate thing that we've learned in the last four years. First of
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foremost, we have to look back to four years ago in the election and
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know that this was the maybe for the first time that I can recall in
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my lifetime, that they hated a political candidate so much that they would do
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anything to get rid of him, to the detriment of citizens, to the
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detriment of all citizens, to small business owners, to people that were already
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struggling to get by, people living paycheck to paycheck, people trying to pay
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back their student loans, people trying to just get to the next day.
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They didn't care. All that mattered was about seizing power, seizing control from
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a president that they hated, Still mad at him, still couldn't figure out
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how he won, Still didn't understand what happened in twenty sixteen. This was
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supposed to be Hillary's anointing. No one was supposed to stand in her way.
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They helped him get nominated so that he would be an easy opponent against
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her. That's the danger in that strategy, isn't it. Sometimes you come
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in and you say, we're going to get somebody nominated, and they are
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going to be an easy win for us. Let's do what we can to
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help them get nominated. Let's get rid of actual like people that are going
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to be tough to be, like Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or let's knock
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them out of here, and then we can just focus on this easy run,
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not even bother campaigning in the rust belt. We're not got to do
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that. It's going to be an easy win. And it backfired. How
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dare he win? He wasn't supposed to win. He was never supposed to
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win. So the grudge carried on into let's just let's burn it down.
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Whatever we got to do to win, no matter who it hurts, no
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matter what we go through, let's just burn it down. So they did.
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They did, And now we've talked a little bit about this in the
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past couple of months or so, but as the studies now show, twenty
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percent of people who were polled said, yeah, we committed some sort of
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voter fraud in the election. We took advantage of opportunities that were there with
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mail in ballots and drop boxes. We took advantage of family members who probably
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weren't going to vote, but a ballot got mailed to their house, so
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we filled it out for him and scribbled a signature on it and turned it
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in. We voted in states we didn't live in anymore because they were battleground
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states. This has happened. They saw an opportunity. They told us four
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years ago, right about now, this is our chance, this is our
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opportunity to get rid of him. Was it enough to guarantee the electoral college
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for Joe Biden? Don't know that we're going to have that outcome. Don't
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know that we're going to know the answer to that. I don't know that
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that'll ever be something that we're going to know. I do know that the
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same people who did the survey ran the numbers, and they said they ran
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twenty nine scenarios, and three of the scenarios based on the twenty percent of
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people who admitted to cheating three of the scenarios, Joe Biden wins the presidency
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twenty six of them, Donald Trump wins the presidency. Certainly suggests there's a
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possibility that the election was changed. This isn't coming for me, right,
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This isn't something that I'm coming to you and saying, hey, I'm giving
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you my thoughts or my opinions. I'm just stating the fact that, yes,
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studies were done, a survey was done, and this is what the
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results were. This was all an opportunity that was seized. Hey, this
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is how we're going to get him. So some states saw the potential for
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this to be a problem again and they made changes to make it less easy
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for people to maybe find these little technicalities, these loopholes, ways that they
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could go in and vote sneaking around. And when they changed them, the
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left said, ah, they're cheating, they're racist. Jim Crow two point
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zero happened here in Georgia. Look at that, they're cheating what else do
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we learn. We learned that when you have kids at home and they need
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to be at school, a lot of things fall behind. Primarily when they're
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having school at home, they suffer in their education. They suffer in their
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social skills when you tell them to wear a mask and cover their face.
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They suffer from their social interaction with one another. Some kids took a hit
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on the social thing. Some kids took a hit on their schooling, their
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grades. Some kids suffered from both, and some kids were just getting started
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in school and they didn't get that early foundation of this is what school is
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supposed to be, this is what school is supposed to look like. This
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is how you're supposed to act. They didn't get that. Some of them
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suffered in all of these areas. Some kids took a major hit in really
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key areas, math being one of the biggest eighth grade math was one of
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the biggest areas that kids suffered. Eighth grade math. As they're getting ready
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to try to translate into high school, this isn't a good place for people
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to go into high school being behind in math, that's not a good spot
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to be in that kids transitioning into junior high to middle school also not a
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good place to be experiencing any kind of deficiency. But they did. Didn't
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matter though, because this was about something else, wasn't it. It was
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about something completely different. Now, were some of the people that were telling
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us to do these things genuinely just trying to make sure that people survived.
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Absolutely? Were they using their heart more so than their head? Some of
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them absolutely were. And I can't tell you that using your head instead of
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your heart is always the way to go. When people are screaming listen to
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the science. That should be the very essence of listening to the science screams
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use your head, not your heart. Right, I'm an advocate that you
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have to listen to both. I mean, I really believe that. I
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don't believe you should use your head in your heart when it comes to government.
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I just think that this should be a pretty easy laid out system of
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you know, you heard me say it once a thousand times, leave me
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alone, let me live my life. When I'm hurting someone else, then
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you step in. That should be it. It should be a pretty easy,
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cut and dry. You can lay it all out, you know,
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zero zero one ones. It's pretty it's pretty basic. It's very binary.
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Am I doing something to hurt someone else? No, well, then leave
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me alone? Is that person over there doing something to hurt someone else?
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Leave them alone? So that's where you get into this area of would staying
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at home stop someone from hurting someone else? And we start looking at that
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from the perspective of using our heart rather than our head. And in some
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cases, yeah, you probably did need to use your heart a little bit.
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But what we've learned is they'll do anything to control power. What we've
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learned is sometimes listening to the science doesn't really mean listening to the science.
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I got some other examples too. It involves who's swimming in races against girls
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and what their original birth sex was, and all those sorts of things.
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That's one of those cases where you're told don't listen to the science, that
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you're told to listen to your heart, not your head. We're also it's
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pretty evident that not trusting science, or in some cases, not trusting medicine,
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in some cases, not trusting still the media more so than ever,
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not trusting folks in our government. All of those things really have the light
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shine on it, didn't it. Like I said last week, now,
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if nothing else would this current president. We've had the curtain pulled back on
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what does a president really do? That's kind of been exposed now, hasn't
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it. And that's also a byproduct in the last four years we've seen that
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because of all of this, So happy anniversary to that period where folks on
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the left were starting to go, hey, this is how we're going to
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get rid of Trump. Wasn't about, Hey, we're going to try to
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beat him in an election. Get a candidate that can actually campaign against him,
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can actually make public appearances, who can actually debate him. Wasn't about
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that. It was about this is going to be an easier way to do
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this. This is going to be an easier way around it. And now
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four years later, they think they found another way to get him. They're
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going to indict him every chance they get. Is it really about what he
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may or may not have done, or is it just about again, how
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do we keep him from being president again? Because we still hate him that
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much. So if we learned anything in the last four years, I guess
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dot com More West Carol Morning Show right after the break. So as we're
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now on the other side of the NFL draft combine, there were a couple
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things that stood out in one of them was you know, Tom Brady showing
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that he could now run the forty yard dash faster than he did when he
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was in the combine, and it was a long time ago. But one
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of the other things that really jumped off the page is linebacker from Texas Tech
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Tyler Owens. He says he doesn't believe in space. Yeah, doesn't believe
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in space, other planets. I guess anything. I don't know. I
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don't know what he thinks he's looking at in the sky. But he did
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make the case that the people who believe the Earth is flat do bring up
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some valid points. In the end, he said that the flat Earth stuff
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could be real or it couldn't be. I don't know if he ended up
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coming to the same conclusion about space, but says he doesn't believe in it.
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So I mean, if you don't believe in it and it can't be
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real, I guess I don't really know how that works. Speaking of space,
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the new Adam Sandler movie Space Man not getting great reviews on Netflix.
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It's based on a novel, and I'm gonna give it a little time before
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before going to too much spoiler with it. It tries to dive into some
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heavy topics. It tries to delve into that, and seeing Sandler do drama,
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I enjoy that. I think when he's done drama in the past,
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it's been there's usually at least a little comedy in there with it. There
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really wasn't a whole lot of comedy. I'm not I can't even remember any
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now that I'm thinking about it. Yeah it was. I mean, I'm
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not going to absolutely trash it the way a lot of people are. There
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were things about it I liked, but it's a weird one. Just giving
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your heads up. It is absolutely a weird one and it's not going to
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be for everybody. That's the other thing that I think is important to note
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is that it is absolutely not going to be for everybody, and definitely,
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based on the reviews, I think that that's also a fair assessment. We
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know that phones have made pretty significant upgrade aids and changes, and some of
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those upgrades seem I still don't get the smartphone that is also that folds it's
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weird. There's that part of me that just thinks it's another thing for it
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to break. I know some people swear by those things. I mean,
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they look neat, but I can't imagine that being an investment that I need
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to make. Well, here's another one that seems even weirder. It's kind
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of in the same vein. Motorola is working on a rollable phone that will
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wrap around your wrist. Still a concept, not going to be mass produced
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anytime soon, but they say their engineers have made pretty significant strides and getting
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a prototype that works as a regular flat phone and then you can wrap it
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around your wrist. Again seems strange. I could see the benefits of that
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being a place to hold your phone, probably better than putting it in your
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pocket. It's kind of like wearing a watch. I mean, I guess
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it's kind of a smart watch that's also a phone. I don't know if
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you're able to use it while it's on your wrist. I guess that would
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be an interesting concept for it, if you could talk into it while you're
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wearing it. It looks like a watch when it's wrapped around the arm,
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at least the prototype that they're showing off, and it has some like it.
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It curves. You can stand it up all by itself just by kind
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of bending it into a little kind of upside down question mark shape. I
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guess so, I mean, I can see where it will have some interest
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if they can get this thing fully sorted out and actually being mass produced.
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study, people who use marijuana once a week had a three percent increased chance
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of a heart attack five percent higher risk of stroke. Daily users dealt with
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much greater risk compared with people who had never used it. Daily weed smokers
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had a twenty five percent greater chance of suffering a heart attack and a forty
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two percent higher risk of having a stroke. Keep in mind, we've been
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getting told for a very long time that it's it's just natural, man,
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it comes out of the ground. There's nothing bad about it. It's just
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fine. And you got more and more states that have made it legal,
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more and more people are smoking it. So I would guess, just based
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on my daily encounters, as I go out in the public, as I
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go to the store, as I go to the gym, wherever I go,
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I would say that it seems that almost every person I encounter is in
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the twenty five percent greater chance of getting a heart attack and forty two percent
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risk of having a stroke. It just seems like about you know, at
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least every other person. It's a lot of them, So just a heads
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up. There's also the studies that link it using it to schizphrenia and dopamine
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levels and all that stuff. So just a heads up may not quite be
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as you can do it, no big deal as people want you to think.
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