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AG Garland Contempt Is Closer to Trump Case Than Hunter · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Thursday morning, thirteenth
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day of June. I'm West, thanks for joining me. Thursday the thirteenth.
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People only freak out on Friday. They don't care about Thursday the thirteenth.
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Got no problems with that at all, none. You know my feelings
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about Friday the thirteenth versus Monday the thirteenth. I would argue Thursday the thirteenth
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is worse than Friday the thirteenth. I think all the days are worse than
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Friday the thirteenth just becalled well. I mean, unless you get to the
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weekend, you know, you start thinking week Oh, Saturday the thirteenth,
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I guess is better. But anyway, there's nothing special about Thursday the thirteenth,
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so I guess I can stop talking about it. Here. We are
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working our way towards the weekend. Next week is there's a holiday on a
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Wednesday. It's Juneteenth, So next week is a great vacation week, right.
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That's a good if you work at a place in your company gives you
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the nineteenth of June off juneteenth, and that's a holiday for you and it's
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on a Wednesday. It gives you that opportunity where you can it's right in
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the middle, take a couple of days before or a couple days after,
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or both figure out how you want to work that exactly. But it's a
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good opportunity at least as far as holidays go. It's one of those perfectly
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placed, right in the middle holidays. We get that with the ones that
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don't always fall on a Monday. With that said, I'm gonna be taken
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next week off. That's my plan for next week is we're gonna take some
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days and I'll just I probably will do a MATEI of Stars show and that's
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about it. That's all I'll do next week. Otherwise I'll be taking the
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week off. But I'm just giving you a heads up of that here on
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Thursday, and then I'll do tomorrow's show and then we'll come back and kick
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it off a week for Monday, and that's what we'll do. We'll jump
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back into it again. Then that's the plan. At least. I don't
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know. It's possible that in the midst of being on vacation, I may
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decide there's something that I want to talk about and if that happens, we'll
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cover that as we get to it. Okay, so a couple of things
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we want to talk about this morning. I want, first of all,
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need some time really to kind of process this whole Merrit Garland thing. It's
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not unprecedented, but it's not common for the House to hold the Attorney General
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in contempt. They've done it. What it will mean moving forward, There's
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a few possible things that could happen on this. We'll see some Republicans are
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saying, we're going to push forward on another vote, which would put us
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in a position where he would be taken into custody. Yikes. I know
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that the talk about the Hunter Biden case and the Donald Trump case and people
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saying, well, they are very similar. It's very similar in that they
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both have been convicted of felonies. But the Hunter Biden thing, I can't
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stress this enough. Hunter Biden not running for president, his dad is.
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I do realize that the Hunter Biden case does sort of roll into the Biden
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family legacy in some way. But again, I don't think anybody's not going
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to vote for Joe Biden based on something that Hunter Biden did. I do
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think there may be some people who aren't going to vote for Donald Trump based
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on the felony counts. I do think that that's a possibility. I do
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think that there's a lot of people that are going to vote for Donald Trump
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because of the felony conviction. I do. I think it may be more,
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and I think that may be one of the giant backfires from all of
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this. But anyway, I think the Merrick Garland a conviction or a vote
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told him in contempt. It's not a conviction. But I think that this
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is closer in line with what happened to Trump because this is something that actually
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you could make a case where you know, Biden's Department of Justice has issues.
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That's been the case Republicans have been trying to say. Donald Trump has
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been trying to say that this is not a fair situation for anybody on the
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right. And if you're going to take the attorney general and hold them in
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contempt, that certainly plays into that. Of course, it was a very
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partisan vote. There was one Republican who did not vote for. There were
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no Democrats who did not vote against, and that was so that lays it
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out for you where things are all right. So the other thing I want
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to talk about, because that's that we need some more time before we know
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what's next in the Merrick Garland case. We do. I do want to
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talk a little bit about what's happening moving between now in November concerning the presidential
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election, because now we are seeing a president whose campaign is now working with
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or going to be working with, a super pack consisted of Hollywood writers and
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performers combination of the two. I guess I don't know who all. I
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don't know that we've seen a full list of everybody that's involved, but it's
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a Hollywood super pac that says they have to get Joe Biden reelected. They
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cannot let Donald Trump be elected. Some of the writers have a passed on
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Saturday Night Live, some have a past on the show Parks and Wreck,
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both shows that it sometimes are funny and sometimes weren't right some times SNL can
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be quite funny, funnier at a certain period in time. Same could be
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said of Parks and Rec. And honestly, Parks and Rec not a show
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that I watched when it was on. I watched it more recently and it
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just kind of one of my background shows. A lot of times when I'm
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working, I have something on in the background. It's sort of just part
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of how I process things while I'm working and how I pass keep my brain
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engaged even if I'm not currently actively working on something. I'm not watching TV
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right now while I'm doing this. I just mean while I'm doing there's other
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aspects of this job other than when I just hit record. So I would
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watch that show, and at first the show was I thought humorous. I
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like Chris Pratt a lot, and he was a prominent character on that show
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as Andy Dwyer. But overall the show definitely became just kind of a giant
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commercial for Joe Biden anyway, didn't it. There's a lot of that by
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the end of it. That's what it felt like. So not a big
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surprise that people that worked on either as writers or producers or even actors on
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the show would be chilling for Joe Biden. That's not a big surprise.
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But the thing that we have to realize here is that we're talking about the
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fact that Joe Biden needs help from celebrities to get the young vote. They're
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concerned about that eighteen to twenty four year old vote. That's what they're worried
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about They're worried about young people. Now, why would they be concerned about
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young people? Well, first of all, that's covering the obvious elephant in
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the room. The President is a very senior man. He has what seems
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to be I think, to just about everybody who would be honest, the
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man has cognition ishues. He looks like he's really on some days, really
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struggling. He doesn't speak a lot in public, he doesn't get opportunities to
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speak. When he does speak, he says he has talking points he's supposed
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to stick to. He's not allowed to veer from them or he'll get in
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trouble. The infamous easter bunny issue that happened a couple that was years ago,
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that wasn't just this past easter. But he tried to speak to the
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press, he got asked a question that his administration did not want him to
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talk about. Apparently, so whoever's in the easter bunny suit at the White
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House decided to grab him and push him away, escort him away from the
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conversation so that he wasn't talking about whatever it was he wasn't supposed to be
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talking about. And I can presume that because the President has said many times
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they don't want me talking about whatever dot dot dot. They know they're going
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to get mad at me if I answer your question, They're going to get
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upset with me. So that's what younger people get an opportun You need to
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see. They got to see him at the Juneteenth celebration with Kirk Franklin singing
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and the President just standing there, honestly just grinning and looking like he could
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just tip over at any moment. And I'm not saying any of this with
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any sort of glee or happiness. I know some people are. It frightens
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me. I know that there's times where you kind of go, this is
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laughable. It's no longer laughable. This has gone past laughable. This is
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really embarrassing. We have And I've said this before, and I will stress
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the amount of embarrassment that I have about a couple things. One of our
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last five presidents, sixty percent of them have been accused of some sort of
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sexual assault, some sort of possible rape. And when you break it down
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in terms where you say you know they've been accused of these things, at
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best they've been accused were first they actually did them sixty percent. Okay,
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that includes the current one, the previous one, and you go back to
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the one who was governor of Arkansas before he was president and his wife ran
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for president. So of those five, you know, your forty percent representation
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that is you know, clean on this issue would be George W. Bush
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and Barack Obama. That's it. Everybody else has some sort of at absolute
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best case scenario a question mark in there. That's embarrassing. We have a
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president now who his son just had his conviction. I know his son's not
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running for anything. Looks bad. September we're going to have another trial for
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Hunter Biden. That should have everyone in the White House concerned, including the
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president. You know what sort of things are going to get dug up.
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Then in September, two months before you know, the election, leading right
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up to it, people will be voting at that point. That's where we're
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going to be when that rolls around. And then you know, obviously you
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know, when Donald Trump first announced his presidency that he was going to be
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running, I laughed about it on the radio. I didn't think it was
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serious. I didn't think there was any way he could win. I was
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dead wrong on it. There are a number of things that I think Donald
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Trump has done absolutely right. There's a few things that he's done and I
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go, I wish he wouldn't say that. I wish he wouldn't do that.
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There are some of those. It's an ugly mess that we're in right
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now, and both sides seem to be celebrating difficulties and challenges for the other
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side. But overall, it makes us all look bad. Looks makes us
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look bad as a country. It shakes the foundation of how the world sees
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us. All of those things. So this president, his I'm assuming staff
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period, his campaign staff says we're going to need that young vote. We've
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got a very senior person running for president. We have also what happened at
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the college campuses and graduations and still happening in places, protests concerning the Palestinians,
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considering support for Palestine, considering some of the hatred spewing in the direction
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of the Jewish peoples who have long been supporters of Democrats. Overall, not
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all, but in many cases, that is a voter block that Democrats typically
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don't spend a lot of time worrying about. They're having to worry about that
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right now. They're having to worry about the Hispanic vote, They're having to
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worry about the Black vote. This has not been a good period of time
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for their old faithfuls, like their voter block that they know, we got
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this, This is going to be fine. I think what they ultimately thought
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as we move closer to November was that they were just going to have to
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worry about trying to recruit as many women who are independents by throwing around the
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word abortion. That's still coming. Don't think that we're out of that,
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but that's still coming. So they're in a position now where they think we
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got to get some young vote. We're going to have to do this because
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anything that they said negatively about protesters concerning Palestine would have an effect on them.
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It's part of why they didn't say anything at first. Biden didn't want
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to speak about it, tried to avoid it, tried to stay away from
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it, did everything he could, and then finally he ultimately had to say
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something about it. And some of that could be detrimental to some of those
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voters. Is that going to keep them from voting for him? Is it
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going to keep them from voting at all? Is it going to have an
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effect on the election. It could they need younger votes. What have they
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done in the past. They typically go to, you know, sort of
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celebrity endorsements. I still think that's coming. I know we were all told
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you're not supposed to say that, but that was part of my speculation.
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And I know I've said this before. I don't really follow a lot of
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the different other talk shows, TV shows, whatever. I try to separate
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from them because I don't want something that I say to come from anywhere other
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than me. If it does, I'll mention that, hey, I heard
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this somewhere else and I agree with it. Well. I was talking about
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the fact that I had speculations about Taylor Swift eventually. Whether it was planned
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back then or not, I don't know, but I still think they got
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Taylor Swift warming up in the bullpen. I do think at some point Taylor
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Swift will end up being showing up, maybe at the convention. I don't
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know, but I do think Taylor Swift, who has supported Democrats in the
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past, it's not going to be a big surprise and when it happens,
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and I do think it's still going to happen. All the people who said
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Ah, it was just a conspiracy theory that's not really going to happen,
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And if it does, it'll be another conspiracy theory that ended up being true.
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Right, It'll be another conspiracy theory that we're gonna go. Eh.
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I thought this was a conspiracy theory. So I think that's in the works.
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I mean, if they're pulling the SNL writers, they're pulling I mean,
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could there be any less relevant right now than Parks and Rec showing up
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like just coming in and going, we're gonna jump in here. We want
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to get involved in this election. And again I haven't seen exactly who it
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is. I don't know who they're bringing into the mix. But if they're
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bringing in SNL writers, they're bringing in Parks and Rec writers or stars or
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whoever they're going to be, this isn't a big shock. We know that
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they have relied on things like this. I mean SNL used to be a
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show where they made fun of everybody and they had a good time and you
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could watch it and enjoy it. Then you got to a point where it
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became well, we have to make sure we're supporting one party or one candidate.
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I have said many times at my disgust and disappointment with one of my
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broadcasting heroes, David Letterman, part of why I ever got into broadcasting,
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A huge part of why I got into broadcasting. And he's someone who said,
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at some point it couldn't just be about being funny anymore. It was
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more important than that. After nine to eleven he said, it's more important
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than that, and it became about we have to do more than just tell
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jokes. We have to do more than just poke fun at things. We
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have to have some sort of an agenda involved. I guess is what that
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means, right, So, and disappointing as a fan because I just wanted
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to see the guy be funny. That's all I ever wanted was to see
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him be fun and I got to see his show live in person in studio
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many times, enjoyed it, liked it even in those days after that.
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But that's what SNL became. That's what all the Late Night toachs talks to.
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Maybe not so much Jimmy Fallon. I mean, he's still doing goofy,
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wacky stuff, and that's great, that's what you should be doing.
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The others are definitely in for the left. They know they're supporting. They're
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all in. They're doing everything they can, and SNL is one of those.
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It's not a talk show, but they certainly have their message that they
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want to get out and it rarely involves including anything positive on the right.
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So can they be the ones to bring home some sort of a push the
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needle for Biden? This is a desperation act. But I remind you of
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this when we start talking about it being a super pack. We start talking
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about that, and I've said before, when you go to the movies,
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when you're paying for a TV subscription services, when you're paying for things,
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you are supporting the people that are putting money into these super packs. Just
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keep that in mind. And I'm not telling you to change what you do.
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I'm not encouraging boycotts. I'm not discouraging you supporting the arts that you
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support. But when you're buying music from an artist that's been outspoken about who
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they support, when you're paying, you know, five thousand dollars a ticket
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to go see an artist that you support, if they don't share your political
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views, you may very well be supporting their super packs. And it's just
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something to keep in mind. I'm not telling you how to you know,
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spend your money. I didn't tell you to boycott bud Light. I didn't
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tell you to boycott Budweiser. I didn't tell you to do any of that.
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I passed along on the information that was there. That's all that I
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did. And I'm just reminding you that. And again, this isn't me
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encouraging anything or discouraging anything. It's just me pointing out something that if you're
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Morning Show. Right after the break, well, do you feel a little
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frisk gear in the summer. If so, it's not your imagination. Summer,
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they say, does have an effect on people's libidos. Wearing less clothing,
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more exposure to vitamin D, feeling less stress in the summer months all
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contribute to that increased libido. A study from Villanova University found that the most
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sex related Google searches take place during the months of June and July. So
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there you go. We're in the summer, it's hotter outside and people getting
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all revd up. I guess if your summer travel involves flying. Here's a
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recommendation that comes from baggage handlers They basically say a lot of people like to
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put like a ribbon or a sticker or something on their suitcase to make it
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more identifiable when it comes off the you know, the luggage machine, and
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it comes down and it's going around the conveyor belt and hits the basically saying
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that those ribbons and stickers can cause a disservice to you because they say that
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ribbons and stickers basically, when they go through security cameras, those extra markings
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can throw off the scanners and that means the bags have to get checked manually,
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which then means as a possibility, your luggage may not make it onto
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a plane. So if you've used ribbons and stickers in the past and your
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baggage didn't make it on your flight, that could possibly be one of the
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reasons for it. So just keep that information in mind. You may still
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want to do it. I don't know. I mean hard not to want
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to put some kind of marking on it. They do make the with the
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buckles that strap around. I assume that's a little different than what they're talking
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about. All right, there's an airline in India that is giving you the
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option if you're a woman when you choose your seat on your flight, of
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knowing where the other women are on the plane so that you can decide that
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you want to sit next to another woman. Indigo Airlines rolling out a new
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feature that lets female travelers see where the other women are seated, and then
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when they choose, they can make that choice. Indigo is this is a
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quote. Indigo is proud to announce the introduction of a new feature that aims
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to make the travel experience more comfortable for our female passengers. We are committed
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to providing an unparalleled travel experience for all of our passengers, and this new
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feature is just one of the many steps we are taking towards achieving that goal.
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They talk about their girl power ethos, and they say that this feature
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aligns with that, So there you go, all right. Tipping. We've
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been talking about tipping for a while now. It's a hot button thing for
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a lot of people really all over the country parts of the world that don't
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do the tipping. They still wonder why we're still doing that. But a
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lot of Americans think that tipping and the tipping culture has gone a bit too
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far and fed up with the pressure to tip money for just about everything and
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saying why don't the employees of the businesses just make more money to begin with?
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But not all tippers are the same. In fact, tippers in some
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states are more generous than others. According to a survey from restaurant software company
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Toast, the most generous tippers in the country can be found in Delaware.
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Delaware has no state or local sales tax, though, so that may contribute
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to that. A little bit close behind Delaware's New Hampshire, West Virginia,
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Indiana, Wyoming, Kentucky, and Ohio. The least generous tippers are found
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in California. So I don't know if the tax thing for Delaware has anything
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to do with the you know, it's the opposite maybe in California. So
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you know, just you know, thinking about that top restaurant chains in America
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as it's one of those things where like fast food prices have adjusted going with
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inflation, they've gone up in some places, the cost of regular food has
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gone up again. So I don't know, I think some people maybe are
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turning back to fast food again, even though it's expensive. It's it's kind
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of a decision you got to make where you're going. Can I cook this
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at home for less than fast food now. And it used to be pretty
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clear you're going fast foods the cheaper, easier way to go. But sometimes
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now it feels like you can cook it cheaper at home. Or maybe that's
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just me getting older. I don't know, but research firm Technomic has released
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its annual Time Top five hundred report listing the top restaurant chains in America according
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to last year's sales, and still way out in front place In first place,
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in front of everyone else is McDonald's and that's by a lot. Starbucks
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is two, followed by Chick fil A, then Taco Bell, Wendy's,
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Duncan, Burger King, Subway, Chipotle, and Domino's. Remember a time
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when Subway was sitting comfortably in that number two spot. That was a while
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ago. I think that may have been, you know, pre Jared revelations,
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but Subway was sitting there very comfortably in that two spot at one point.
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It's just wild to think they've dropped that far down since. I guess
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Burger Kings also had. But when you get a restaurant or chain, I
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guess like Starbucks, that comes along. And obviously the surgeon popularity of chick
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