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The Old Dementia Defense · 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 when you're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Tuesday morning, thirteenth
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day of February. I'm West thanks for joining me. Day before Valentine's Day.
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At this point you better be ready. I mean, you could still
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go out and grab something, but if you're doing something, you should get
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it done. I mean, you're running out of time quickly. There are
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some places, though that you can still run out and get something. You
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gotta do something doesn't have to be a big deal, just something small,
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just something that says that you care. I don't know. Some people are
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in relationships where they need something big. We don't do that in our house.
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We don't do the big thing. We don't do the overly expensive thing.
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What we do is, you know, just something meaningful and you don't
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have to go crazy and over the top with it. And I'm blessed in
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that regard. Everybody tells me every year, oh, you're falling for that
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trick. It's gonna get you. Nope, no, no, no,
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no, that trick's not gonna get me. It's not a trick. It's
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not a trick. Not when you mean it. So here we are eche
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our way through another week and we're working our way to obviously we have Valentine's
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Day and then we'll get into this long weekend this weekend President's Day weekend,
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and so that's coming up quickly. I talked about that yesterday. If only
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they could just get one more bye week or one more game or something in
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the NFL, and that would stretch it out where you'd be in a position
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where you could have the holiday basically the day after the super Bowl, and
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that's what people have been asking for for a long time. It's late,
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especially when the game goes into overtime, you know, and then people or
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just tired. That doesn't happen a lot. I think Kyle Shanahan has to
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be involved for there to be an overtime game, but it happens every now
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and then, and that makes it even harder. And you got I talked
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about this yesterday. But kids just want to be able to stay up and
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watch the game, and my kids, really, Luke can't do that.
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Jake could do it. Luke can't really do it. Jake loses interest at
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some point unless the Giants were playing, and then he would be in it,
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but otherwise he would lose interest in it. So I want to talk
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today this morning about the president, and I want to talk about cognition,
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and I want to make sure that I'm very clear on a few things.
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OK. And I've addressed this before when it comes to Biden, his memory,
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his cognition, his slurring, his memory, all of those things.
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I don't in any way mean to make fun of that condition. I don't
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mean to joke about it. I think it's really serious. I have a
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number of loved ones in my past, maybe even if you currently, that
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are dealing with this. We have cases of dementia in my family. We
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have cases of Alzheimer's in my family, so just loved ones that on my
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mom and dad's side of the family both. I've got grandparents that had dementia,
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and I know, eventually you live long enough, you're going to have
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some issues with memory and memory loss and some of those things. It is,
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sadly for most people, and Alzheimer's that's obviously a different thing altogether,
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but dementia as a symptom itself is horrible. I don't think it's funny.
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I don't think it's not certainly not haha, laughable. I think you have
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conditions or situations maybe where the condition becomes comically laughable, but not in a
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hahaway. And I think you know the difference, and there is a difference.
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People try to hold you to certain words and try to define things and
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say that you're saying something when you're not. And I'm not saying anything to
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laugh at, to make fun of, or to in any way take away
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from the seriousness of dementia. Period. It's awful if you've had anyone close
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to you that has suffered with dementia, and suffer is the word for the
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person with it and also the people who care about them that are close to
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them. You all suffer. It's it's tough, it's it's unbelievably challenging.
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I think of cases where with both of my grandparents, where you know,
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my my mom's mom, my dad's dad, different situation, similar symptoms.
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My grandfather got to a point where he would, you know, wander off,
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and which is apparently something that people with dementia do. They like to
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wander off, they like to try. I guess they're trying to still exist
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in a world that's not there anymore. The time is left behind. I
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guess that's part of it. He struggled a lot with memory with who my
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dad was, who my grandmother, was confused at who I was as a
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kid, didn't know who's this again. He thinks he's, you know,
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thirty five years old, and couldn't understand who the old woman was in his
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house. Who's this old lady in my house? And eventually he would realize,
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Oh, that's my wife. She's gotten older, and so have I.
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Lot of tears, a lot of challenges that go with that. So
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I don't mock it at all. I don't make fun of any of the
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condition. It's awful. And I guess, as they a statistically, you
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get to an age eventually you're old enough that most people will deal with it
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if you live long enough. So I guess in that regard, you know,
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if you want a long life, it's probably something that you're going to
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be challenged with at some point, and people that care about you are going
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to be challenged with at some point. What I want to talk about is
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the fact that we have had a president who has what seems to be an
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apparent progression of this condition over the last you know, three years, four
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years, if you count the twenty twenty in the election year. We didn't
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see a lot of it in twenty twenty because obviously he didn't really run a
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traditional campaign. He ran a let's don't get him out in public. He's
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beloved old Joe, people that like him or feel like he is just safe
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enough of a pick for us to nominate. So we'll put him in there.
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And the people who hate Trump, they're going to go after him.
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And they felt too, like you know, COVID was going to give them
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the opportunity to maybe get some votes in that maybe wouldn't have gotten in before.
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And we've discussed that at great length. I've accepted the outcome of the
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election because it is the outcome of the election we've addressed on this show.
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There's been a couple of studies that have shown that there was a lot more
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fraud admitted fraud from people that participated. Twenty to twenty five percent of people
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admitted to some sort of voter fraud over the course of the election. Primarily,
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what's interesting about that is they study it more in swing states that ultimately
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determine the outcome of the election. Do with that information as you will,
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Okay, all I can do is present that to you. I have discussed
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that now that we're learning a little bit more, and we may go into
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that a little bit more in some of the swing states. But the point
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is Joe Biden was not someone that in the last four years we've seen a
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lot of the four years before that, when he was you know, no
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longer in the White House as Vice president or as part of the White House
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I should say, the Obama administration, he was just kind of you know,
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I guess doing business deals with his kid. I don't know. We
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don't know, right. I mean, we hear one thing and then we
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hear another thing. But the point is the last time in the White House
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and whatever went on during the campaign, it's certainly taken a toll on the
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man. It takes a toll on anybody. It's one of the reasons I
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don't often like to criticizes when people and when people will say, oh,
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if it's a president, I don't like boy, they take a lot of
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vacations. They should. It's a tough job. It's a high stress job.
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It's not a nine to five gig, not for most people. Most
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presidents have to be available, you know, twenty four hours a day,
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sometimes very little to no sleep. They have to sleep when they can.
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They have to be ready to make very major decisions, you know, navigate
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through a pandemic, and no matter what you do, you're going to be
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told it's wrong and then later said, actually some of the things they did
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were right, but that's just Trump. That's just the way it goes with
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him. So it's a tough job. Takes a toll on you. You
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look at any president and you say, here's this president, you know,
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eight years ago. Here they are leaving the White House and they look like
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they've aged about twenty years, every single one of them. I think the
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gray hair comes in more frequently, bigger patches of it. Maybe you go
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completely gray. I don't know. It's tough job. It's tough, and
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I'm sure it takes a toll on someone who is now, you know,
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in the eighties a decade of their life. And it really has to have
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been tough for someone who probably was starting with some memory issues to begin with.
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Based on everything that we saw, I mean, most people would have
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said that. I know that folks on the left didn't want to admit it.
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I don't know how now you can't at least acknowledge it a little bit,
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especially now that it's ultimately become a defense for not trying to prosecute Biden.
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Concerning those top secret documents that he had in his garage next to his
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car, with the garage door open and people coming and going. We know
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that the case against Trump is moving on, and they're determined to get Donald
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Trump off of ballots. They want it impossible for him to run. That's
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what all of these cases are about, whether it's Fannie Fanny in Georgia,
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whether it's the documents, any case that they can bring against him. They're
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doing whatever they can to get him off ballots. But one of those cases,
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one of the first ones, right was the classified documents. Oh,
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we got to keep the classified documents. He's got to be prosecuted for having
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those things that made the very public showing of going into his mar alago.
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They wanted to get it, they wanted the scene. They wanted to make
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sure someone could have the flashing blue lights outside of his house, all those
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things, things that had never been done before just someone. Now, maybe
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we're forgetting that, but prior to that raid on his home, something that
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never happened before to a former president. So we found out Biden had documents,
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We found out Mike Pence had documents. It happens apparently, but for
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Trump it had to become the crime of the century for the purposes of moving
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forward with trying to get him out of the race. So as they investigated
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Biden and his confidential documents top secret documents, they determined that because of his
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impaired memory and his cognition issues, that they really couldn't go forward with a
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case because they felt like that it would be hard to prosecute him because he
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was having problems remembering basic things like when his son died when he was Vice
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president. He couldn't remember those things when they were talking with him. Of
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course, now the White House says his memories, this Special Council report saying
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that he has memory issues is bunk. But if there is a problem between
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now in January, if there is a problem between you know, if he
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gets another term, that Vice President Harris is ready to go, and she's
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sharp. I tell you what, She's been nothing but just a winner in
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every capacity, from the moment when she started running for president to her job
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on keeping the border secure. That was her project. Remember she's gotten that
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under. Oh my gosh, could the border be any more? Lockdown?
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Right now? She's just been outstanding every time she gives a speech. You
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know, it sounds like a five year old wrote it. But that's okay.
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You know, it doesn't mean it's not a good speech. Five year
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olds can write a good speech. That can happen. So she's ready to
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go. Just case now, his memory's fine, but she's read now.
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Can you imagine if Trump had gone into his hearing and just said, yeah,
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my memory's crap. I don't know. You can't prosecute me because my
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memory's crap. I don't remember any of these documents. I don't remember when
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was our president again? Can you imagine what his campaign would be like,
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trying to become president again, to win another term as the leading candidate on
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the Republican side. But apparently it's enough to keep the Special Counsel from recommending
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moving forward with charges against Biden, and he still gets to run as the
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uncontested quote unquote easy walk in nominee for Democrats for reelection. So he doesn't
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have the memory to remember when his son died. According to them, doesn't
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have the memory to remember when he was vice president, so he's going to
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continue to run for reelection. He's mad. He doesn't like it. He
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doesn't like that they have even raised the question that anybody dares to ask him
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a question. He actually did something he never does. He held a press
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conference about it, and he was angry. He was not happy that anybody
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dared to ask and question anything about his memory. But he at least did
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that, and that's what it took to get him in front of people.
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And by the way, he looked terrible. He didn't he had memory issues
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there at the press conference. Maybe at the beginning, other than seeming like
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angry Joe, maybe he was all right until he got to the end and
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he started confusing names of people, didn't know who the president of Mexico was.
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I mean, he just did what Biden does. Tiger didn't go crazy.
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The tiger went tiger. So it's only drawn more attention. Most of
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the country, by all polling says that he's not capable of serving another term.
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So the question now becomes what happens with that Democrat nomination. What happens
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is he going to be the nominee? A lot of people question it more
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now than ever. There were questions early on would he be able to stick
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in there long enough to be the nominee. Man he think he's the only
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person who can beat Trump. Now it looks like it's really gonna be tough
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for him to beat Trump. So the option, of course, is to
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get Trump off the ballots. That's what they want. They want to make
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sure that people there's no way. I know people that say, oh,
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well, if he's convicted, I just can't vote for him. He'd be
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a convicted felon. How could you vote for a convicted felon? How could
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you do that? How could you vote for such a horrible human being who's
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a convicted felon? I don't know. I mean some of the people who
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say that wanted to vote for the why of a guy who may or may
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not have raped multiple women? You know? I mean there were accusations from
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multiple women. Remember we've gone through like with Justice Kavanaugh. He had one
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accuser, and we have to believe the women. But you didn't have to
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believe the women that accused Bill Clinton. No, no, no, all
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of them, all of them. Wasn't one woman who said something happened when
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Bill was sixteen. No, no, no, it was multiple women who
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had very graphic descriptions of what happened at least one of the women that he
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fooled around behind his wife's back, and he admitted to you while he was
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in the White House, after telling us all that he did not and then
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getting himself impeached. But anyway, so, the same people who say they
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could not possibly support Donald Trump based on the fact that the current administration's Justice
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Department is prosecuting him, would have been happy to vote for the wife and
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the person whose job it was, I guess to throw mud at the women
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that were accusing her husband. But anyway, imagine trying to use the defense
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of your memory's bad. Memory's bad. I mean, they didn't want that
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to be the excuse, but that ended up being their defense. His memory's
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bad. We've all seen this play out. We all have watched it degrade.
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We've watched him not know where to walk. We've watched him confuse who
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his wife was if it was his sister or his wife. We've seen him
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call people by the wrong names. We also are pretty sure that he spends
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most of his nights watching murder. She wrote her Matt Locke in the White
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House. Who's running things if he's not capable of doing all of this,
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if he doesn't know if he's the you know, he's slipped up and called
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himself senator a few times because he was so used to that. So who's
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running the show and who would be running the show if he won again?
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And what would they do with him? They get really keep him under lock.
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I mean, this could be one of those deals where we don't see
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him at all for really long periods of time. If he got four more
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years. But the memory's bad reason not to prosecute him, I mean,
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is that a real thing? Could Bill Cosby have used that? Could they
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have come to the conclusion that Bill Cosby didn't remember doing those things, therefore
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right after the break. Well, I know it's been called a conspiracy theory
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and everything, but it's at least gotten the attention of folks at the Hill
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who have done a poll to decide whether or not Taylor Swift or Travis Kelcey's
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influence in the upcoming election would have any kind of impact on things. And
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according to this poll, it was released over the weekend. Fifteen percent of
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adults said that they would be more likely to vote if Taylor Swift or Travis
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Kelcey encouraged them to do so. Conversely, four percent said they'd be less
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likely to vote based on the encouragement of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey. Seventy
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nine percent said that there would be no influence by either one of them on
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them making a decision. I mean, again, I'm not a mathologist or
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a polologist, but I'll just point out the fact that seventy nine percent said
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no impact, fifteen percent said more likely to vote, and four percent said
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less likely to vote. That seems like an eleven percent. I mean that,
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I understand eleven percent may not seem like a lot, but it could
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be. Could be when you're talking about a possible, very close election.
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Have you a crazy, crazy conspiracy theory? People? Have you heard of
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volume eating? It's a new dieting trend, not so much new, but
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it's kind of become a popular thing again and involves eating a lot of low
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calorie foods, so let us cucumbers, celery egg, white spinach, zucchini,
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things like that, and the idea is that you get full on the
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low calorie, high fiber items rather than eating things that are high calorie.
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Therefore you'd lose weight or maintain weight whatever you're trying to do. So basically,
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just think eating like a big salad that's primarily lettuce and cucumbers, right,
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maybe some spinach in there or whatever. So, I mean, I'll
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say this, when you're counting calories, this technique goes well with that.
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I mean you can really, you know, eat some chicken, some like
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baked chicken, or you know something that's you know, a non high calorie
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chicken item, or I mean really you could to chop up a chicken finger
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and put it in a salad and you're primarily eating lettuce and all those sorts
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of things. You just can't go crazy with the dressings. That's that's the
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trick on that, all right. So we know people want to stay hydrated,
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they want to drink water. We're gonna make this phase now. I
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know, talking about hydration after the rain we got for the past couple of
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days is kind of nuts. But we're getting working our way towards spring and
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the summertime is when really have to make sure you stay hydrated. And maybe
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you're one of those people that's working out. You hit the gym to start
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the year because you're concerned about you know, calories maybe you put on over
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the holidays. You got to stay hydrated. And the dentists are basically sounding
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the alarm on flavored seltzer drinks, talking about the alcoholic ones, just any
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sort of drink that has carbon dioxide in it, saying that bubbly drinks can
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hurt your teeth. So basically in a sparkling water, they basically are saying,
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hey, chemical reactions happen in your mouth when you drink bubbly drinks,
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and that turns carbon dioxide into carbonic acid, and that eats away at tooth
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enamel. So that can lead to tooth decay and other problems. So yeah,
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they say go with regular water rather than the seltzer waters or the bubbly
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ones. Speaking of bubbly drinks, how about a new coke flavor? As
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beginning on February nineteenth. So what is that Monday? So that's coming up
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fast? So all right. According to at least a study that was done,
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apparently the gen Z crowd finds old school reading to be sexy zoomers as
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they're called, or passionate about old fashioned entertainment in the form of reading.
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And they, I guess they're doing things on social media to promote books.
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They've got online and in person book clubs, and they say gen Z is
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embracing the joy of curling up with a book. And this is like a
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big thing. Now, it's good. I mean, you always hear the
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story. I mean, think about Alex P. Keaton and you know,
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rebelling on family ties, rebelling against his parents by going conservative like he had
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the hippie parents. This is kind of that, isn't it. It's kind
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of rebelling in the other direction. And do you think that married life makes
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for a happier life well. According to a new Gallup Pole Yes, more
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than two million adults were surveyed between twenty nine and twenty twenty three and asked
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how they would rate their life on a scale of zero to ten. The
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data showed that adults who were married reported being much happier than those in any
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other relationship status. Over the poll's time span, married people were anywhere between
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twelve and twenty happier than unmarried people. The author of the report caution however,
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that getting married doesn't necessarily mean you'll be happier. I mean, you
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gotta be married to the right person. I think is kind of the key
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thing to think about. With all of that, that'll do it for this
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Tuesday edition of the show. Thanks to our sponsors and patrons. Thank you
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